His line up of new government ministers was only approved on Sunday night. Just 14 hours later, the Élysée announced this morning:

“Mr. Sébastien Lecornu submitted his government’s resignation to the President of the Republic, who accepted it.”

It’s a new low for French politics, which has been in freefall since Emmanuel Macron’s party lost its majority in elections last year .

Lecornu had promised to avoid the mistakes of his three predecessors since that election. But like the others, he failed to build a broad church.

His choice of ministers – familiar names from within his own ranks – did not go down well and this morning he accepted that the writing was on the wall.

Outgoing PM Sébastien Lecornu said compromise is possible, “By being more selfless and also by knowing how to s

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