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For weeks now Germany's upcoming election, brought by the collapse of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition government, has been embroiled in a fevered debate about migration.

Instead he was giving fevered instructions on his phone at half-time, at one point standing up and gesturing to his staff furiously, all while sitting a couple of seats along from the BBC commentary team.

For a while, the siblings generated the same sort of fevered excitement as The Beatles.

But the fevered talk of snap elections which followed the collapse of the Bute House Agreement has faded.

Some of the ideas, he said, emerged from the fevered conversations in his own apartment building’s group chat.