The Mail, April 24, Professor Robert Tombs
Today, the French vote for the man or woman who will govern them for five whole years and with more extensive powers than any other democratic head of state.
Will they again choose the still-young and dazzlingly brainy Emmanuel Macron? Or his pugnacious challenger, the veteran Marine Le Pen, who would be France’s first woman president?
Significantly, whoever is in charge will have a big effect on Britain.
So, can we expect a more cooperative attitude over fishing rights, Northern Ireland, queues at Channel ports and illegal crossings by migrants than the one we have experienced since Brexit?
I doubt it. Stirring up Anglophobia goes down very well with parts of the French electorate. Many of their politicians still consider our leaving the EU to have been not merely mad but a betrayal.
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