David McAllister

...time when the rival SPD socialists are at an all-time low in opinion polls. Mr McAllister is the first British citizen ever to hold such high office in Germany. Despite feeling German, he described his upbringing as "very British a British...

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...prices. David McAllister, leader of Germany's governing Christian Democratic Union party, who is of Scottish descent, said it would take years before Germans dispense with the stereotype of Scots as skinflints. "Germans are...

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...Germany. The supporters of David McAllister, a half-Scottish German politician who is the CDU's chairman in the state of Lower Saxony, know him as a spirited conservative who is always good for a spiteful remark about the SPD. But the...

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Rangers supporters at the Ibrox Stadium, in Glasgow: Mr McAllister is a fan He said his parents imbued him with an equal sense of pride in Scotland and Germany. However, when he was 11, the family moved to the North Sea coastal town of Bad...

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...marrying a German woman and settling in Berlin. It's a background that sensitised McAllister to the recent BNP Question Time furore: "I think the BBC did the right thing there," he says. "Our experience in Germany has shown us you handle...

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