DAVID McAllister, the half-Scottish Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, who has been widely tipped as a potential successor to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has left office after narrowly losing a state election.
DAVID McAllister, the half-Scottish Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, who has been widely tipped as a potential successor to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has left office after narrowly losing a state election.
Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), led in Lower Saxony by Mr McAllister, thought themselves on the verge of a come-from-behind victory in the north-west state, a major agricultural and industrial region and Germany's closest approximation to a US-style swing state.
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