Marine Le Pen

Yes, her party and policies might be morally repulsive, but Le Pen is a canny operator, especially when it comes to one part of the political game

Open warfare between supporters of the far right rivals has turned the National Rally party into an episode of Succession

France’s far right presidential candidate could end up campaigning while wearing an electronic tag

If Trump and his vice-president have a genius for anything, it’s global media dominance

The far right leader demanded French courts get tough on corrupt politicians. Now she is paying the price

Her political ban might boost the National Rally - but equally, it could now crumble. So let’s celebrate

A populist surge across Europe is being fuelled by young people sick of broken promises, stagnant wages and waning hope. How can Keir Starmer respond?

The next battleground for the French president and Rassemblement National’s leader is the cyclone-hit, French-owned archipelago in the Indian Ocean

Marine Le Pen stands accused of risking her country’s stability to keep herself out of jail. Sound familiar?

Reform’s leader has been touting a French-style health system that is coming under increasing pressure

Barnier’s budget was relatively mild - but Tweedledee and Tweedledum said he had to go

Ridiculous borrowing, impossible promises and an unwillingness to face reality have led to budget deadlock and talk of a Greek-style financial crisis

Days after those election gains, squabbling over PM candidates makes it look as dysfunctional as ever

Le Pen’s party is packed with Russia supporters – no wonder the Kremlin’s disinformation machine supported her

There is an undeniable note of envy that cuts through the French coverage of the UK election

Most of France celebrated the defeat of Marine Le Pen last Sunday. But the price of victory will be chaos

Politics doesn’t always go your way, so it’s important to drink it in when it does

Le Pen and Bardella are the stuff of 2016 nightmares

Marine Le Pen’s clear win underscores her party’s achievement of making a duplicitous surface-level transformation to voters

In Nice, a stronghold of the French hard right, the racial and political tensions simmer

As Marine Le Pen’s extreme right party creeps ever further ahead of its rivals, a new democratic collective has emerged

Macron’s snap election call has triggered turmoil across the country as parties rush to form alliances in time for June 30

Some French voters have forgotten what the EU is really for

A leadership contest between the two is emerging. Each wants to become the great figurehead of the nationalist right in Europe

The populist right is on the rise and it's deeply nostalgic

The rebranded right wing presidential candidate is not what she pretends

After winning the first round of voting in the presidential elections by only a small margin, Emmanuel Macron has just two weeks to pull voters back from the brink of extremism