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Candidates were making their last campaign pushes Friday for the first round of voting in a high-stakes legislative election in which French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist government risks a drubbing at the hands of the far right and hard left.

France's political forces were on Friday to make a final bid for votes in crunch legislative elections that could see the far right take control of the government in a historic first.

‘Having started the campaign 20 points behind, the Conservatives needed everything to go right whereas it has often felt that everything that could go wrong has gone wrong,’ says Ipsos Director of Politics Keiran Pedley

Exclusive Ipsos poll for The Standard showed the Conservatives are on a joint record low of just 19 per cent

First-time buyers now face paying £227,757 for a home, rising to more than half a million pounds in London, Rightmove said

President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Gabriel Attal have experienced a significant decline in popularity, while the latest polls shows France's far-right National Rally in the lead ahead of legislative elections taking place over two rounds at the end of June and beginning of July.

The rejection of Tory big beasts like Liz Truss would be thrilling, but don’t discount the boost it would give Reform, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Sources say Alison McGarry hid behind a hedge when seen by party activists who threatened to report her

Lord Barwell, who was No10 chief-of-staff to Theresa May, said the July 4 election was a ‘terrible mistake’