Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch far-right Freedom Party, said the EU should refuse entry to all Muslims

The European Union should refuse entry to all Muslims and “de-Islamise” Europe, the leader of the Dutch far-right Freedom Party has said following the Ansbach bombing on Sunday.

Geert Wilders, whose anti-immigrant party has a strong lead in the opinion polls, has accused Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister and Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, of exposing Europe to terrorist attacks by encouraging refugees and failing to secure EU borders.

The suicide bombing in Germany by a rejected asylum seeker who pledged allegiance to Isis followed a knife attack by another Syrian, not linked to terrorism, who hacked a pregnant woman to death. Last Friday a shooting at a shopping centre in Munich left nine dead. Mr Wilders, a close ally of Marine Le Pen,