Marine Le Pen
France’s Corbyn is helping Le Pen win the presidency
Firebrand Jean-Luc Mélenchon is squeezing out the moderate left - and wants to sink autumn’s budget too
Marine Le Pen
Marine Le Pen
Trump failed to kill Nato. Will Marine Le Pen succeed?
If Le Pen wins next year and goes through with a threat to step back from Nato, the consequences for western security could be dire
Marine Le Pen
What Andy Burnham can learn from, er… 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
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Le Pen’s rift with Bardella could wreck her run for power
Open warfare between supporters of the far right rivals has turned the National Rally party into an episode of Succession
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Le Pen may have made an even bigger blunder than Farage
France’s far right presidential candidate could end up campaigning while wearing an electronic tag
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Vive la France, à bas JD Vance!
If Trump and his vice-president have a genius for anything, it’s global media dominance
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Lie of the week: Nigel Farage on Marine Le Pen
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How Le Pen wrote the rules of her own downfall
The far right leader demanded French courts get tough on corrupt politicians. Now she is paying the price
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Stop worrying about a Le Pen backlash
Her political ban might boost the National Rally - but equally, it could now crumble. So let’s celebrate
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The kids are alt right
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?
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Macron and Le Pen squabble among the ruins of Mayotte
The next battleground for the French president and Rassemblement National’s leader is the cyclone-hit, French-owned archipelago in the Indian Ocean
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The trials and triumphs of Madame Le Trump
Marine Le Pen stands accused of risking her country’s stability to keep herself out of jail. Sound familiar?
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How Barnier’s fall shows Farage is wrong about the NHS
Reform’s leader has been touting a French-style health system that is coming under increasing pressure
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Le Pen and Mélenchon’s Lewis Carroll politics
Barnier’s budget was relatively mild - but Tweedledee and Tweedledum said he had to go
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France, state of delusion
Ridiculous borrowing, impossible promises and an unwillingness to face reality have led to budget deadlock and talk of a Greek-style financial crisis
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The French left is missing its moment
Days after those election gains, squabbling over PM candidates makes it look as dysfunctional as ever
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How Putin lost the French election
Le Pen’s party is packed with Russia supporters – no wonder the Kremlin’s disinformation machine supported her
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Britain sets an example to France
There is an undeniable note of envy that cuts through the French coverage of the UK election
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Joy and delusion in France
Most of France celebrated the defeat of Marine Le Pen last Sunday. But the price of victory will be chaos
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Taking a moment to enjoy political victories
Politics doesn’t always go your way, so it’s important to drink it in when it does
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I left Britain for France after Brexit. So what now?
Le Pen and Bardella are the stuff of 2016 nightmares
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French elections: Le Pen’s march on power
Marine Le Pen’s clear win underscores her party’s achievement of making a duplicitous surface-level transformation to voters
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French politics burns in the summer heat
In Nice, a stronghold of the French hard right, the racial and political tensions simmer
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A bloc to block France’s extremists
As Marine Le Pen’s extreme right party creeps ever further ahead of its rivals, a new democratic collective has emerged
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France’s week of political psychosis
Macron’s snap election call has triggered turmoil across the country as parties rush to form alliances in time for June 30
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Will France vote for Europe?
Some French voters have forgotten what the EU is really for
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Who leads the European hard right: Meloni or Le Pen?
A leadership contest between the two is emerging. Each wants to become the great figurehead of the nationalist right in Europe
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Turning right
The populist right is on the rise and it's deeply nostalgic
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Le Pen’s slogans may have changed… her heart has not
The rebranded right wing presidential candidate is not what she pretends
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The French elections reveal liberal values under threat
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