Chief Eurocrat Donald Tusk meddles in British politics backing pro-EU Change UK who want to cancel Brexit
The European Council boss endorsed a candidate for the Europhile party
DONALD Tusk has urged Brits to vote for a Change UK candidate in the upcoming EU elections to help reverse Brexit.
The Brussels boss waded into the UK debate and backed one of the Remainer party's MEP hopefuls in London.
He made an unprecedented intervention in support of Jan Rostowski, a Pole who was his former finance minister and deputy PM.
The Council chief said: "He was the best finance minister in Europe during the financial crisis.
"He is also a very dear friend who would make a great MEP for London, which I know he loves. I urge Londoners who want Britain to stay in the EU to vote for him."
Mr Tusk was prime minister of Poland from 2007 to 2014, when he left Warsaw for Brussels to take up the role of Council president.
His remarks drew fire from Brexiteer campaigners who accused the top Eurocrat of abusing his position to meddle in British politics.
'STOP INTERFERING'
A spokesman for Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said: “Of all the self-inflicted wounds that Change UK have suffered during this election campaign this statement by Donald Tusk has to be the worst.
"To have a foreign bureaucrat with direct power over this country interfering in our democratic process is a nadir."
Tory MEP David Campbell Bannerman added: "Tusk should stop interfering in British politics.
"It won’t do any good and he is backing the wrong horse. It’s pro Brexit parties who will win these electrons and it’ll be Eurosceptic parties who win right around Europe, including in Poland.”
Mr Rostowski is second on the list for Change UK in London, behind former BBC presenter Gavin Esler.
He has previously caused controversy by claiming “a stable society is based on heterosexual relations" and that some Polish MPs were "undeclared gays".
When asked about the comments, made in 2011, he recanted them and insisted his views have now changed.
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Mr Tusk is not the first senior EU boss to tell Brits how they should vote in Thursday's elections.
Guy Verhofstadt, the EU Parliament's chief, has urged people in the UK to back the Lib Dems as a protest against Brexit.
The curtain-haired Belgian even travelled to London to campaign on the doorstep for the pro-Brussels party.
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