France: strong and stable leadership

A government that is strong and stable has finally arisen, says Emily Hohler. Just not in Britain.

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Emmanuel Macron looks set for the huge majority May had hoped for
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"We now have strong and stable leadership but in France, not Britain," says Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times. Theresa May enters Brexit talks "gravely weakened" after the general election. Emmanuel Macron, by contrast, is on course for the huge parliamentary majority that May "once dreamt of". Macron's one-year-old La Rpublique en Marche (REM) party and its ally, the small centrist MoDem party, took 32.3% of the vote in the first round of elections on 11 June and are expected to end up with 400-450 of the 577 seats in the National Assembly in second-round elections on 18 June. With a "win on that scale", continues Rachman, Macron would form the "second largest parliamentary majority in the history of the Fifth Republic".

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

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.