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How Le Pen humiliated Macron

Mon Dieu. Emmanuel Macron's gamble to call a snap general election after poor results in the European elections last month looks to have backfired, with Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally trouncing the President's centrist coalition in the first round of voting in France.


Kamal and Camilla talk to The Telegraph's Paris Correspondent Henry Samuel to find out what it means ahead of the final round of voting at the weekend. With France heading for uncharted territory, could it end in a chaotic parliamentary deadlock?


Plus, England scraped into the quarter finals of the Euros after a dramatic comeback against Slovakia. The Telegraph's man in Gelsenkirchen Thom Gibbs has all the latest reaction from Germany and says he'd be surprised if Gareth Southgate stays as manager, even if he brings it home this summer.


Read:

Macron ‘practically wiped out’, Marine Le Pen declares

Dear England: please listen to us – we do not want to suffer anymore


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