Final Opinion Polls suggest marine Le Pens far right national rally will secure the most votes, but its thought its unlikely to win an outright majority in the national assembly. Such an outcome could plunge the country into a chaotic Hung Parliament, severely denting the authority of president Emmanuel Macron. The anti immigration national rally scored historic gains in last sundays first round vote, giving Le Pen and The Partys Leaderjordan Bardella their first realistic chance of running the government and taking control of the national assembly. However, after hundreds of rival candidates from centrist and leftist parties dropped out to give their allies a better chance of defeating the far right, Le Pens hopes of winning an absolute majority seem less certain. Mark lowen reports. Rarely have frances fraternal founding values felt so strained. But in this polarised, angry country, they voted in the most crucial parliamentary election in decades. The far right national rally is At T
To meet his polish counterpart. Mr lammy stressed that the two countries share the same strategic vision on Ukraine And Nato with british troops and Air Defence systems helping to defend poland. Its part of a wider trip which saw the Foreign Secretary in Germany Yesterday and sweden later today. Our diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams has been travelling with the Foreign Secretary and has more on what hes been saying. Asa as a whistle stop tour, in fact he has moved on and im still here, he is already in sweden. He has gone to three countries in a matter of 2a hours, why these countries . Well, if you think about it, france was not an option this weekend. Brussels, the prime minister, keir starmer, has said the uk will not be rejoining the eu in his lifetime so perhaps brussels would not have been the stop. Germany, a key partner in any relation uk will have with europe in general, and poland, a country on the Front Line of the confrontation with russia, a key player of assistance to u
Work we have done ever so many years, because that was an incredible Election Result. An historic result and a real, real mandate for change. We start here. Not long aGo, wejust had one red. And now look. We have a team of 37. And now look. We have a team of 37. And i campaigned, and in that campaigni and i campaigned, and in that campaign i said i want scotland to send a Government, to start delivering for scotland. And we have this team to be part of a sitting on the Government benches, all working to deliver for scotland. This team here. The whole of the Labour Party in Government. And myself. Delivering for scotland. You do not win elections. They do notjust drop from the sky. There is nothing inevitable about an election win. Nothing inevitable about what happened here in scotland. We won because we change the Labour Party. We won because we can paint as changed later. Because anas and jackie and All Of You changed Scottish Labour and put it in a position to win that election. And
In england and wales. We follow covid workers through a remote part of eastern india to find out how they ve vaccinated 80% of adults, way above the national average. 2a hours before the olympics opening ceremony, the show s director has been sacked. I m in tokyo, where the organising committee has reeling but the japanese prime minister australia and new zealand pull out of the rugby league club later this year after good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Retailers are calling on the government to make food workers who ve had both doses of a vaccine, exempt from the self isolation rules which they say are making it increasingly difficult for some shops to keep their shelves stocked. Almost 620,000 people received a contact tracing alert in the last week. The government has said the isolation rules will be relaxed for only a very small number of critical workers, before wider changes in england next month. Theo leggett reports. Empty shelves in supermarkets, retailers a
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