article_snippet: Farage was today condemned as an attention seeker for calling for race discrimination laws to be scrapped and claiming some Muslims in Britain 'hate us and want to kill us'.
article_snippet: Ukip leader became embroiled in a race row after first suggesting in a TV interview that laws against discrimination should be scrapped, before trying to claim that Ukip leader never discussed race at all.
article_snippet: Prime Minister David Cameron said the remarks were 'deeply concerning' and Labour accused Farage of wanting to go back to the days when firms put up signs saying 'no blacks, no dogs, no Irish'.
article_snippet: Prime Minister David Cameron used Twitter to issue a public condemnation of Farage comments .
article_snippet: Labour leader Ed Miliband said Mr Farage's comments were 'wrong, dangerous and divisive' while Lib Dem Nick Clegg Clegg accused Farage of 'instilling fear' Farage was speaking in an interview with ex-equalities watchdog chief Trevor Phillips for a Channel 4 documentary, Things
article_snippet: The remarks sparked a furious row, with political opponents accusing the Ukip leader of fuelling racial tensions.
article_snippet: Mr Cameron said: 'Nigel Farage is attention seeking.
article_snippet: It's deeply concerning Nigel Farage
article_snippet: Labour leader Ed Miliband said the comments were 'wrong, dangerous and divisive'.
article_snippet: Labour MP Sadiq Khan called the comments 'one of the most shocking things I have ever heard', suggesting Nigel Farage wanted to take Britain back to the days when shops displayed signs reading 'no blacks, no Irish' Lib Dem Nick Clegg Clegg accused Nigel Farage of 'instilling fear' by conflating problems like violent extremism and Sharia law with the issue of employment legislation.
article_snippet: Labour's shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan said: 'This is one of the most shocking things I have ever heard from a mainstream politician and demonstrates breathtaking ignorance. '
article_snippet: When my parents moved to London my parents frequently saw signs saying 'No blacks, no dogs, no Irish': what Ukip is suggesting would take my parents back to those days.'
article_snippet: A Ukip spokesperson said: 'A Ukip spokesperson don't think there's anything controversial in what Nigel has said, at least not [for] the vast majority of Britain.'
article_snippet: Nigel Farage later claimed Nigel Farage comments had been taken out of context.
article_snippet: Nigel Farage said in a statement: 'My comments to Trevor Phillips were lauding the progress of race relations and equality in Britain.
highlights_snippet: Argued that rules were no longer relevant, and called Ukip 'colour blind'
  
highlights_snippet: Says some Muslims want to 'change who some Muslims are and what some Muslims are'
  Prime Minister David Cameron accused Farage of 'attention seeking'
  Miliband slams 'dangerous' remarks and Clegg says Clegg is 'instilling fear'
  Labour says Ukip wants to go back to signs saying: 'No blacks, no Irish' 