Germany’s influential Bertelsmann Stiftung has ruffled UKIP feathers after suggesting that the UK’s GDP could suffer by up to 3% if the country left the EU. The party immediately dismissed the report as a “stitch-up” and “nothing but a propaganda exercise by a German-financed load of Euro-federalists”.
Challenging its findings, Paul Nuttall, UKIP MEP and deputy leader, pointed out that former Luxembourg Commissioner Viviane Reding was on the foundation’s board of governors. “Even our own pro-EU Foreign Office has described…