unifying all patriots from the right and the left. the parliamentary opposition to mr macron s centrist coalition is now much stronger than before, but it s also more fractured, with one bloc led byjean luc melenchon on the far left of the chamber and another by marine le pen on the far right. french politics is realigning around these three political groups. some voters say it s no bad thing if president macron is forced to negotiate with his opponents. others believe denying the government a majority only leads to stagnation. president macron is facing a new era of political opposition that some see as good for democracy and others as bad for france. lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. we can now speak to freelance correspondent alexander seale who specialises in french
pro emmanuel macron and against anti emmanuel macron, so we have two wait and see in the next few days what the outcome will be. alexander, why would voters back a centrist over the far right and left in the general election yet reject his policies now? i think they did that because they didn t want marine le pen to be president, they didn t want a far right president at the palace. and they rejected these policies during parliamentary elections, so they said, yes, to him on 24th of april, no during the parliamentary elections, it s difficult political landscape we are seeing in france. we have never had that before,
A flashmob of over 200 classical musicians played in solidarity with Ukraine at Trafalgar Square on Sunday. They played the Ukrainian national anthem and other classics composed by Ukrainian artists in front of hundreds of spectators who had gathered there.
Rana Seale, widow of world-renowned British journalist and historian Patrick Seale, is waging a court battle with their daughter Yasmine Seale and her two stepchildren.
The widow of a millionaire author faces being ‘thrown out on the streets’ in a bitter legal battle with her stepchildren and daughter over their £3.5million house.
Rana Seale was married to Patrick Seale for 29 years and lived with him in their three-storey, six-bedroom property in fashionable Holland Park, west London.
She says their daughter Yasmine Seale and two of her stepchildren – one of them the child of Martin Amis and the other a former understudy to Sir Kenneth Branagh – are now ‘suing her to take away her house’.
The couple had a ‘stormy’ relationship and Mr Seale, who was respected for his works as a historian of the Middle East, spoke to lawyers about divorcing his wife before he died, aged 83, from brain cancer in April 2014.