Good morning. The French prime minister, Michel Barnier, resigned yesterday, after far-right and leftist lawmakers joined forces to topple his government on Wednesday, only three months after it had taken office. Barnier and his government will stay on in a caretaker capacity, taking care of day-to-day business until the appointment of a new government, the Élysée said in a statement.
The end of Barnier’s government – the first to fall from a no-confidence vote in France in more than 60 years – has plunged the country into political crisis and turned Barnier, a veteran politician who was formerly the European Union’s Brexit negotiator, into the shortest serving prime minister in modern French history.
