The German President is in the UK for a state visit. In an address to Parliament, Steinmeier said that Brexit made many things more difficult.

But how do Germans view Brexit? And do they think Germany should follow the UK's example and leave the EU?

The German President is in the UK for a state visit - the first one in 27 years.

We took to the streets in Germany to ask Germans what the first thing that comes to mind when they think about the UK. 🤔

With Germany’s president visiting the UK, we asked Germans what they think about Brexit.

👀 "It's just so stupid to cut the branch you're sitting on," one person said.

Here's what else they had to say ⬇️

Keir Starmer: "Three ex-MPs have gone. That's where their leaks are going... to Reform UK."

"The leader of Reform UK says he wants to merge with the Tories."

"An absolutely unholy alliance of austerity and failure." 💯

‪@eddavey.libdems.org.uk asks the Prime Minister about rejoining the customs union.

These are the numbers we need to remember 🚨

"Three quarters of children in poverty are in working families."

"The two-child benefit cap dragged hundreds of thousands of children into poverty."

No child should grow up in poverty.

👏 Keir Starmer PM: "How Brexit was sold and delivered was wrong. Wild promises were made to the British people and not fulfilled."

"The idea that leaving the EU was the answer to all our cares and concerns has clearly been proved wrong."

👏🏽"We must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal significantly hurt our economy. We have to keep reducing frictions. We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU. And we have to be grown up about it. To accept that it will require trade-offs."👏🏽

Music to my ears. ~AA

"The PM wanted today to talk about... benefits reform and the UK's relationship with the EU and about regulation, which were interesting in and of themselves, but all of the questions were about the pre-budget process."

A neat summary by Mason - but he led that questioning. ~AA #PoliticsLive

I find it interesting that every single TV political journalist opened with an editorialising comment, while all the newspaper ones just asked questions. I suspect, because the latter know the question won't be in the write-up, while the former are trying to craft a clip that is all about them. ~AA

Perhaps a good time to launch an investigation...

Nigel Farage on Russia Today before the 2014 European Elections talking about the European Union:

"They are fanatical and, and I believe the most dangerous people we've seen in Europe for 70 years."

Make of this what you will.