“The Left Always Get A FREE PASS!“ | Marine Le Pen Right-Wing Party Soars In French Elections

Talk’s Julia Hartley-Brewer is joined by French journalist Anne Elisabeth-Moutet to discuss the latest in the French elections. Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) party scored historic gains to win the first round of the parliamentary election. The RN and allies had 33% of the vote, followed by a left-wing bloc with 28% and President Emmanuel Macron’s centrists with just 20%, official results from the interior ministry showed. That was a huge setback for Macron who had called the snap election after his ticket was trounced by the RN in European Parliament elections last month. Labour and European parties need to address the everyday concerns of disaffected voters and show that only progressives have the answers, Sir Keir Starmer has said. “The lesson that I take from nationalism or populism wherever it is across Europe – obviously we’re seeing the results emerging from France – but we also see the situation in other countries across Europe and across the world