Marine Le Pen

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Will bromance bloom between Trump and Jordan Bardella?

15 December 2025 6:12 pm

Life has never been so good for Jordan Bardella, the 30-year-old president of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally. A recent…

There’s something about Marianne – but can French identity be defined?

6 September 2025 9:00 am

The Parisian public belongs to ‘all classes and creeds’, yet the sounds, smells and street furniture remain unmistakably French, says Andrew Hussey

Why France hates Macron

30 August 2025 4:00 am

One of the pleasures of spending the summer in France is that I can turn aside from our national problems…

Trump is giving us a taste of our own medicine

5 April 2025 9:00 am

It seems the US State Department sees an impediment to free speech as an impediment to free trade with Britain.…

How the French right can still win

5 April 2025 9:00 am

Dixmont, Yonne It has been a terrible year for the Le Pen family. Jean-Marie died in the first week of…

Macron is the author of his own despair

7 December 2024 9:00 am

‘Notre-Dame has been restored to its full level of glory, and even more so,’ said the President-elect Donald J. Trump…

Le Pen is still the biggest winner in France’s elections

8 July 2024 8:06 pm

Ignore most snap verdicts from last night – the big winner in the French parliamentary election was still Marine Le…

What the National Rally means for France’s foreign policy

6 July 2024 9:00 am

The electoral turmoil in France threatens its status as a world power. Friendly nations are despairing; rivals and enemies are…

The youth vote is turning right

29 June 2024 9:00 am

Young people are supposed to drink a ton, have a lot of sex, hang out with their friends at every…

France’s ‘Somewheres’ want revenge

29 June 2024 9:00 am

The builder who has been working on my house in Burgundy will be voting for Marine Le Pen’s National Rally…

The 28-year-old who legitimised Marine Le Pen

8 June 2024 9:00 am

Marine Le Pen’s National Rally – formerly the National Front – is expected to triumph for a third time running…

Marine Le Pen wants France to become the next Sweden

20 September 2022 9:33 pm

While Emmanuel Macron spent Sunday in London honouring the memory of the late Queen Elizabeth, Marine Le Pen marked her…

Forget Le Pen 2027

25 April 2022 5:30 pm

If Emmanuel Macron has any sense he will be back in the office this morning. Sunday night’s celebratory shindig was…

Will Russia sink Le Pen?

23 April 2022 8:00 pm

Paris, France Marine Le Pen has changed her image. Five years ago, the veteran far-right leader lost her second bid…

The narcissist vs the fantasist

23 April 2022 9:00 am

France faces a gruesome choice

Le Pen drives Paris mad. That’s why her voters love her

21 April 2022 1:30 am

When asked to define Marine Le Pen in a single word, a majority of French people came up with ‘cats’…

The real danger Marine Le Pen poses to the EU

15 April 2022 4:00 pm

As the French Presidentielle hots up for the final vote on Sunday week, both Macron and Le Pen are fighting…

The French elite are playing into Le Pen’s hands

13 April 2022 8:12 pm

The cry of ‘aux barricades’ is reverberating around France as the country’s political elite rush to form a Republican Front.…

Will Marion Maréchal-Le Pen join Éric Zemmour’s campaign?

11 January 2022 7:10 pm

Is Marion Maréchal, granddaughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen and niece of Marine, about to emerge from political retirement to support…

Eric Zemmour’s big weakness has been exposed

3 December 2021 7:02 pm

George W Bush will forever be in debt to The Donald. Before Trump became the 45th president of the United…

A night in Béziers

23 October 2021 9:00 am

Zemmour’s star power is undeniable

Eric Zemmour is eating Marine Le Pen alive

29 September 2021 8:59 am

French opinion polls are best taken with a generous bucket of sel de Guérande but this evening’s drop of a…

Hidalgo has trashed Paris. Can she do the same for France?

14 September 2021 4:00 am

Anne Hidalgo, the socialist mayor of Paris, whose reign has submerged the city in debt and rubbish, is the latest…

France’s provocateur is coming to London

3 September 2021 7:34 am

Five years ago, London’s affluent French poured their dosh into the campaign of Emmanuel Macron. This time around, supporters of…

Is Marine Le Pen’s presidential bid doomed?

28 June 2021 11:27 pm

Nothing went as predicted in France’s regional elections. Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National did not win a single region and…