This evening Emmanuel Macron will almost certainly be searching for his sixth prime minister since January last year. Francois Bayrou’s decision to call a vote of confidence in his government looks like a calamitous misjudgement, one that will plunge France into another period of grave instability. Comparisons are being drawn with the tumult of the Fourth Republic when, between 1946 and 1958, France went through more than twenty governments.

The French are fed up with their political class

Bayrou’s coalition government has limped along this year, achieving little other than creating more disenchantment and contempt among the long-suffering electorate. The French are fed up with their political class.

Above all, they’re sick to the back teeth of their president. It was Emmanuel Macron’s

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