March 14, 2025 - 3:50pm

An Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) politician has hosted senior members of a British ethnonationalist party at the German parliament. A Homeland Party delegation, including chairman Kenny Smith, yesterday met with the AFD’s Steffen Kotré and received a guided tour of the Bundestag, according to a post shared on Homeland’s social media accounts this afternoon.

Homeland was founded in 2023 and registered as a political party last year. Several of its activists have been outed as former members of neo-Nazi groups, and have denied the Holocaust. The party has adopted a platform of “remigration”, involving the mass repatriation of immigrants, which has also been embraced by the AfD. In January, the German party’s co-leader Alice Weidel endorsed remigration, calling for “repatriations on a large scale”.

Thursday’s meeting between Homeland and AfD representatives was geared towards “building relationships across Europe and the world”, according to the former party’s X account. It added: “Implementing remigration will require good foreign relations and our party is already preparing to ensure it will be a success.”

Homeland interviewed Kotré yesterday, as well as Gunnar Lindemann, an AfD politician in the state parliament of Berlin. Kotré has previously appeared on Russian state television to accuse the Western media of spreading anti-Kremlin disinformation, comments which were labelled “disgusting Putin propaganda” by one of his AfD colleagues. Meanwhile, Lindemann has previously been a member of groups in which antisemitic posts were openly shared, and has been accused of ties to far-Right extremist organisations. He has also pinned blame for the Ukraine war on “warmongering” Nato, America and “above all” the Ukrainian state.

AfD youth representative Manuel Schreiber spoke at a Homeland event in Derbyshire last year, while the British party will next month host a “remigration conference” featuring Lena Kotré, an AfD politician and the wife of Steffen Kotré. Another of the advertised speakers is Renaud Camus, a French writer credited with originating the “Great Replacement” theory, according to which political elites are deliberately replacing native white populations in Europe through mass migration from non-white-majority countries.

Speaking to UnHerd late last year, Homeland chairman Kenny Smith said that remigration “was absolutely necessary”, and that “you could stop all the boats and deport all the illegals tomorrow, but if you only stop there we will still continue to become a minority in our own country.” He also dismissed the idea that his party had neo-Nazi roots, saying: “[Britain] ruled half the world — we don’t need to look for inspiration on the continent.”

In a video shared on Homeland’s social media on Wednesday evening alongside Steve Laws — the party’s South East Regional Organiser and arguably most famous face with almost 100,000 X followers — Smith said that they had received “intensive media training from a quality team that has worked very closely with the AfD”. In a separate video, Laws said that the AfD and other Right-wing nationalist parties in Europe “are campaigning on remigration and they’re taking it to national levels, and the majority of people in their countries agree with them. And we want to bring that back to the UK, and we want to present that to our people.”

The AfD came second in Germany’s federal elections last month, returning a record 152 seats as well as doubling its vote share. Homeland remains a minor party in Britain but surpassed 1,000 members this month.

Homeland has been contacted for comment.


is UnHerd’s Deputy Editor, Newsroom.

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