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after marine le pen s far right national rally party triumphed in the first round of snap parliamentary elections. president macron has called for centre and left wing parties to unite ahead of the next round of voting, which will determine who controls the country s national assembly. according to the interior ministry, national rally and its allies gained 33% of the popular vote. the leftwing new popular front came second with 28%. president emmanuel macron s centrist alliance reached 20%. with this report, here s our paris correspondent andrew harding. cheering. a dramatic win yesterday for france s national rally. the party was, for years, considered too extreme for most french voters, with its anti immigration, eurosceptic platform and its links to the kremlin. but, last night, the rn, as it s known here, secured more than a third of all votes. the party s leader is marine le pen, who has her eye on winning the french presidency next. she told the country it had nothing ....
miles of newscasters. thank you for making this election much more interesting . well, kira, have a lovely trip to hawaii, whatever the reason is, and let s see what s going to happen on my trip to glasgow with newsnight on this episode of newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello, it s adam, not in the newscast studio, but hanging out with newsnight. lovely to be here, hanging out with you. and, of course, nick. hello. right. we ll talk about what you guys are going to be doing on the special episode of newsnight in a minute. but there s been quite a big story, actually, in the election campaign today, nick. and it s to do with reform, and we should be quite precise here. so it s not a candidate from reform who said something that people are very concerned about. it s an activist who was out canvassing for them, and they were filmed undercover by channel 4 news, and they broadcast their piece on thursday night. that s right. so it was an undercover investigation by chann ....
starmer was visiting greenock last friday he talked about the damaging conflicts ongoing between the uk and the scottish government and he pledged to improve that relationship should he become prime minister. do you commit to working with him on that, on that toxicity that we have seen, even if he suggests it ends up denting the support of independents? i have been engaged with intergovernmental relationships with the government for many years and i have had many occasions where that has been successful and constructive and many where it has been difficult and many where it has been difficult and we have not been able to get agreement. for most of the time that has been a respectful environment. i would say that my experience of the gordon brown government, the cameron and clegg government, the following cameron government and the theresa may governments were generally on issues that affected people prosper but lives pretty constructive. i have to say, i was part of tho ....
there have been huge queues to get in, and people on some arriving planes were held on runways for several hours. further disruption is expected, and some flights diverted to other airports. it comes as we approach the busy summer holiday season. let s speak to a passenger, nikita pearson a fitness instructor who is stuck at manchester airport waiting to board his flight to istanbul. thank you forjoining us. tell us your experience today so far. we got to the airport your experience today so far. we got to the airport at your experience today so far. we got to the airport at about your experience today so far. we got to the airport at about eight - to the airport at about eight o clock in the morning and you could see people sat outside on luggage. we didn t think anything of it. we got a lift to go upstairs to terminal one and you couldn t even get out of the lift. you had to trample over people to get out of the lift and then you just stood there. hoards of peop ....
there have been huge queues to get in and some passengers on arriving planes were held on runways for several hours. further disruption is expected, and some flights diverted to other airports. it comes at the start of the busy summer holiday season. here s a clip sent in to the bbc by philip banfield, who is a passenger stranded at manchester airport. so i now have an update for you that we are now stuck airside. our aer lingus plane has taken off from manchester on time without any passengers able to get on the plane. and of course, that leaves an enormous number of passengers now stranded at manchester airport wondering how they are going to continue their onward journeys. but we ll find a way. let s get the latest from our correspondent simonjones, who s in the newsroom. we heard from that passenger, we will find a way, but a lot of people are finding it very difficult to find a way, because in the past hour we have had an updated statement from manchester airport. ....