Could the “lunatic” outsider, Emmanuel Macron, steal a march on Le Pen?

Emmanuel Macron is looking less and less like an outsider as the presidential election in France hots up.

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Emmanuel Macron is the "Unidentified Flying Candidate" in the "most unpredictable French presidential election for a very long time", says Sonia Delesalle-Stolper in The Observer. When he left the socialist government last November to found his own liberal movement, En Marche!, he was dismissed as a "lunatic".

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Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.