For years, Angela Merkel’s opponents have marvelled at the German chancellor’s seemingly unerring sense of the national mood.

But it has emerged that Mrs Merkel’s office has been conducting secret opinion polls and using them to shape government policy.

The chancellor’s office commissioned more than 600 opinion polls between 2009 and 2013, according to a report in Spiegel magazine – and no one outside a closely guarded circle knew about them until now.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.