Figures released today by global polling company YouGov have confirmed what many across Europe were already begin to realise through Germany political polling: Angela Merkel’s migration policies are killing her government, with the new numbers showing her government’s approval rating dropping off a cliff as pro-mass migration policies begin to bite.

The -51 per cent approval rating mirrors a decline in her party – the Christian Democratic Union’s – popularity, and is the lowest approval rating for the German government since September 2012.

YouGov reports: