Friedrich Merz accused of using ‘dangerous’ rhetoric on immigration

German chancellor rebuffs critics and insists anyone with daughters would agree we have to change something'

Critics have accused Germany's chancellor, Friedrich Merz, of adopting dangerous" rhetoric on immigration, after he championed very large scale" expulsions of people from cities - and claimed that anyone with daughters would agree with him.

Merz, who took office in May with a pledge to beat back the rise of the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) party, on Monday chastised a reporter who asked if he wished to revise his hardline remarks on migration from last week in light of widespread criticism, or apologise for them.