Taking to Twitter following the news, Mr Tice, who is leader of the Reform Party, told his 109.4k followers: "Thank God Brexit happened when it did, as new German leaders want deeper EU federal state. Everything we feared." His comments come after Olaf Scholz’s new German government has called for the EU treaties to be rewritten to turn the Brussels bloc into a federal European state. Newly appointed Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, is said to be overseeing what is said to be a blueprint for a “United States of Europe”, according to the Telegraph.

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