France in chaos
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Last night the final exit polls of the French election were revealed to a collective stunned gasp.
The far-right RN party of Marine Le Pen - and Jordan Bardella - is in third place.
Macron's centrist grouping is in second place - but the dominant bloc emerging is a collective of radical left parties - with the controversial figurehead of Jean-Luc Melenchon at its helm. Macron's PM has stayed on -for now - as caretaker.
But there is a collective political fog over the shape of France’s next parliament. Has Macron's gamble paid off? Macron will argue he kept fascism at bay - but for how long?
Later, what will Labour's planning changes mean for young people trying to buy houses? Can it work?
And how does the Speaker of the house learn 334 brand new MP's names... by next week?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:20.7 | Don't panic. |
| 0:22.9 | There is a whole world of chaos still to come. |
| 0:26.7 | Whilst we have turned into this, temporary perhaps oasis of calm and seriousness, |
| 0:32.5 | over the channel, it's all kicking off. |
| 0:35.0 | Yeah, that's the sound of a French TV election studio last night. |
| 0:40.1 | Where it was like, blah, blah, la. |
| 0:43.8 | I mean, the disorganisation, the chaos in France now following the second round of voting, |
| 0:49.8 | which has seen Marine Le Pen's far right party reduced to third place. |
| 0:54.5 | But what happens next? |
| 0:56.3 | How they form a government, God only knows. |
| 1:00.5 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:05.4 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:07.9 | It's John. |
| 1:08.9 | It's Emily. |
| 1:09.7 | And we are back in Newsagents HQ. |
| 1:12.4 | Calm, do we think? |
| 1:13.5 | Calm. |
| 1:14.0 | Well slept. |
| 1:14.6 | You said on the final Q&A about how would you get through the night and you said |
| 1:19.8 | I was going to have a martini cocktail in the studio when we record. |
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