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Hello and welcome to The Edition, the Spectator's weekly podcast discussing some of the most

important and intriguing issues within our pages each week with the writers behind them.

I'm Isabel Hardman. As France enters its 62nd weekend of protests, President Macron's honeymoon

is well and truly over. But has he found a new friend in Boris Johnson?

Plus, what is the problem with the Labour leadership race? And last, what's killing Britain's salmon?

First, Emmanuel Macron needs an ally. Back home, the country has been protesting against his labour reforms,

unemployment remains stubbornly high, and abroad,

the country's military entanglement in Africa is only getting messier. Could Macron be looking

to Boris for help? That's the argument Jonathan Miller makes in this week's cover piece,

and he joins me down the line from France now, and in the studio with me is Charles Grant,

director of the Centre for European

Reform. So Jonathan, you've written about a bromance that's blossoming between Boris Johnson

and Emmanuel Macron. Just tell us a little bit about the evidence for this lovely relationship.

It is what the late great Tony Bambridge at the Sunday Times used to call a scoop of interpretation.

And really, I noticed, the first thing I know is what I've been covering Macron really since before he got elected.

And I noticed that last year, as he was traversing the country on his great debate, he never missed an opportunity to really

put the knife into Britain. He was talking about Brexit, about how it was insane, it was

nationalistic, it was self-harming, and then suddenly he stopped saying any of these things.

And it was the absence of what he was saying that first drew my attention to this.

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