How Olaf Scholz lost Germany

Olaf Scholz's popularity ratings are the lowest ever recorded by a German chancellor.

The three parties of his coalition are together polling at 32 per cent , down 20 points from the election.

Bild , Germany ’s influential tabloid, is running a campaign to replace him with Boris Pistorius , the popular SPD defence minister.

This is Germany ’s winter of discontent, says Jurgen Scholz .

The coalition parties lack a consensus on the future direction of the economy, he says.

Germany has become a lot harder to run, he adds, as it has become harder to do so.