Theresa May risks being toppled by Christmas unless she takes charge of Brexit negotiations, according to Nigel Farage.
Speaking alongside the granddaughter of a senior Nazi official at an event organised by a right-wing party in Berlin, former UKIP leader Mr Farage warned the Prime Minister could be ousted by her own MPs if she fails to stamp her authority on her party.
He said: ‘If she doesn’t do those two things – doesn’t get some sense of order back into her own party and direction back into where the negotiations are going then I think the whispering campaign will go from something that is being done in private to being done in public and she might not last til Christmas.’
Nigel Farage (pictured) has warned Theresa May she could be out of her job before Christmas unless she takes control of Brexit negotiations
Mr Farage (left) was speaking at event organised by the right-wing Alternative for Germany in Berlin. He was invited by Beatrix von Storch (right), the granddaughter of a Nazi official
Mr Farage was invited to speak at a rally of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AFD) by party deputy Beatrix von Sturch, whose grandfather Lutz von Krosigk was Hitler’s finance chief.
At a citadel on the outskirts of Germany’s capital, Mr Farage said leading British ministers have been contradicting each other on a weekly basis so the government looked rudderless.
He added: ‘She has to stamp her authority on the party and do so pretty damn quickly.’
At the event on Friday at the Spandau Citadel, a 16th century military fortress surrounded by a moat, the AFD displayed a campaign poster that said ‘For a Christian Occident’.
The AFD, which rejects immigration and Islam, is on course to become the first hard-right nationalist party to enter Germany’s parliament in the post-World War II era and are now polling around five to ten percent.
Its leaders have sparked outrage by saying German border guards should open fire on illegal immigrants ‘if necessary’, labelling Berlin’s Holocaust memorial a ‘monument of shame’ and suggesting a Turkish-origin German politician be ‘disposed of in Anatolia’.
Mr Farage (pictured) was speaking alongside Ms von Sturch, the deputy of the AFD. The party rejects immigration and Islam
Lutz von Krosigk (left) was Hitler’s finance chief. His granddaughter Beatrix von Sturch invited Mr Farage (right) to speak at an AFD rally
Mr Farage said he wanted ‘to get a proper debate going in the biggest, richest, most important and powerful country in Europe about not just the shape of Brexit but perhaps even the shape of the European project to come’.
He said Germany, as the biggest EU economy, should ‘say to Brussels: look, the reason the Brits left is because you’re behaving so badly, you’re taking away so much of people’s freedom, liberty and democracy’.
But Mr Farage charged that Germany ‘hasn’t had the debate’ about Europe and ‘about breaking the closed shop’ of EU bureaucrats.
‘We managed to break it in the United Kingdom. At the moment Germany is at a point where it is very, very to tough to break through,’ he said, adding however that ‘I predict, in Germany, it will probably start in Bavaria.’