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Those worrying about France’s far right should look closer to home

Emmanuel Macron Owen Jones France Philippe Pétain United Kingdom
Campaign posters for the French presidential election candidates, Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron.
Campaign posters for the French presidential election candidates, Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron. Photograph: Loïc Venance/AFP/Getty Images

I hear what Owen Jones has to say about France and, as a French national living in the UK, I can only agree that in the last 20 years, far-right ideas have slowly but surely taken root in French public opinion and politics, and that only a united left may revert this, not Emmanuel Macron (A win for Macron will not be a complete defeat for France’s far right, 20 April).

That Macron said Philippe Pétain was a great soldier is an inadequate case in point though. Pétain was a first world war hero – that’s the uneasy truth that Macron was acknowledging.

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