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yes, respond majoritermont the electors of the Rassemblement National.

We'll go to them.

That is Pont-Aire with the news of the moment in France, which is that Marine Le Pen of the hard right is threatening to bring down the entire French government.

And it is over France's unsustainable budget. If this happens, it could trigger financial uncertainty in the rest of Europe on an

epic scale. Welcome to the newsagents.

It's John. It's Emily. It's Lewis. And later on in the show, we'll be talking to the

pension secretary,

Liz Kendall, about the latest effort by a government to get more people off welfare and into work.

How is she going to do it? First, we are going to discuss what is happening in France. And there has been

quite a lot of flashing red lights on various bits of the world economy over the last

couple of weeks. We heard the Chancellor yesterday talking about her tax rises, of course. News broke

overnight, which we'll talk about a little bit, about Trump threatening to impose, saying

he will impose hefty tariffs across North America in Canada and Mexico. But there is a story which hasn't had as much

attention, which actually could dwarf all of them, could be bigger than all of them, and could kind of

be the ignition or the touch paper, which actually sets all of them off a chain reaction, economic

chain reaction. And that is what is going on in France. Before the end of the month there is going

to be a vote on the country's budget. France has a budget deficit, i.e. it spends more than it takes

it in taxes of 6%. That is really big. It's really big. It is twice what the EU rules allow.

And the new government, which has hastily been assembled, led by

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