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This is a global player original podcast. You know how on the news agents, we like to kind of have a punchy

introduction. And so when the exit polls came out last night for the first round of

French voting we tried to record something but we got interrupted you may

hear the sound of three lions in the background which is slightly

disconcerting because England because England are about to go into extra time

but France is far right have done

extremely well according to the exit polls Macron has said I dare you I dare you the

French and Harry Kane has just scored this is very odd this is very odd indeed

yes that was mine and John's audition to join the sports agents I'm not sure This is very odd. This is very odd indeed.

Yes, that was mine and John's audition to join the sports agents. I'm not sure it's been entirely successful. But after that and that remarkable England comeback, we did get the news that we

had technically come to France for, which was that the far right, the national rally or

Assemblement Nacional,

the successor, had won the French elections, that they had come first.

For the first time since the Second World War, the French far right are on the verge of entering government.

What does it mean for France? What does it mean for Europe? What does it mean for the

future of politics on our continent? Welcome to the newsagents. The news agents. It's John. It's Lewis.

And it really is quite a night and quite a journey that the far right in France have been on,

on the cusp of having a 28-year-old Prime Minister, Jordan Badella,

who could be the first, as you say, since Vichy France, far-right leader of this country,

with big repercussions for the continent, with big repercussions for France. But you imagine now that there is a week of taking stock before the

French go to vote again in their second round of voting, because that's the way it happens

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