Talk’s Mike Graham is joined by author at The Spectator, Gavin Mortimer, to discuss the French elections.

Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) party scored historic gains to win the first round of the parliamentary election.

The RN and allies had 33% of the vote, followed by a left-wing bloc with 28% and President Emmanuel Macron's centrists with just 20%, official results from the interior ministry showed.

That was a huge setback for Macron who had called the snap election after his ticket was trounced by the RN in European Parliament elections last month.

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