Pressure grows on SPD to reconsider coalition talks with Angela Merkel

Leader Martin Schulz has ruled out ‘grand coalition’ but faces calls to drop stance to end Germany’s political paralysisGermany’s centre left is facing growing pressure to consider talks about a centrist coalition with Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats as Berlin wakes up to the cost of fresh elections in 2018.Martin Schulz, the leader of the Social Democratic party (SPD), ruled out another “grand coalition” after his party’s worst postwar perform