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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots,

as spectators daily politics podcast. I'm Katie Balls,

don't join my Isabel Hardman and James Recife.

Overnight we've had the result of French elections and Macron is still in position.

James, how do marine dependue? Did she do better than expected?

She's surpassed the 40% mark. She did breach the 40% mark as you say Katie,

but I think in the end this was a fairly comfortable victory for Emmanuel Macron.

Obviously, wait, see what happens in the parliamentary elections, but this was, you know,

and if you look though, you see what a large percentage of both their votes were voting to stop the

other around 40% in both cases. The British view had always been that, you know, an improvement

in Anglo-French relations was going to have to wait until after the French elections,

so at that point it would, you know, when Emmanuel Macron was not engineering, it might be possible

for things to improve. I am slightly skeptical of things are going to improve that much,

because I think we saw at the end of last week, and I think given Boris Johnson's

political position at the moment, it's quite likely that you see some unilateral action

by the UK government in regards to an all-in-all and protocol. I think if that were to happen,

you know, if that were an essentially knock off any prospects of a great, you know,

Anglo-French rapprochement, I also think that, you know, that while Ukraine has pushed the two

together, you do see some distance between the UK position, and the UK is always actively seeking

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