Farage Says Germany's Election Badly Needs a Brexit Debate
- UKIP ex-leader campaigns in Berlin for Alternative for Germany
- German leaders should stop balking at trade deal, he says
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Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage called on German politicians to tell voters the full impact of Brexit, saying Chancellor Angela Merkel and her election opponents are avoiding the topic at their peril.
“This debate has been completely absent” ahead of Germany’s federal election on Sept. 24, Farage told a campaign rally of the Alternative for Germany party in Berlin on Friday. Germany’s next chancellor needs to tell European Union officials to “grow up and start behaving” and strike a trade agreement with the U.K., he said.