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Freddie Gray.

Now Freddie overnight there was something of a political landslide in France what's happened?

Well Emmanuel Macron's famous gamble has failed.

He called this election for the National Assembly.

I think hoping to some extent that he would sort of rally

France against the national rally because that's how he's won power that's how he won

re-election as well was by sort of convincing France to come together to defeat Marine Le Pen.

That did not happen, certainly the first round it has not happened.

There is some hope in sort of anti-Lapen world that she will be stopped short of having a majority.

It looks like she could well be. It's very hard to tell what's going to happen because of the

rather complicated way in which these French elections work. Another upshot is the fact that it's the fear of the left

as much as the fear of the right that seems to be driving these elections.

So you have quite seriously radical

left-wing politicians in France under this coalition

which is sort of led by Jean-Lélélle-Méléléin and the France a sumise. They did pretty

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