The far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) is leaving the Netherlands’ government over its policy for asylum-seekers, its leader Geert Wilders said on Tuesday, toppling the governing coalition.

Prime Minister Dick Schoof resigned on Tuesday after Geert Wilders' right-wing party left the government coalition.

The Netherlands’ 11-month-old coalition government appears close to collapse after far-right leader Geert Wilders said he would “sleep on” a decision on whether to pull out of the fragile four-party pact.