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Le Pen kicks off presidential election campaign amid party tensions

It comes amid reported friction between Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, the president of the National Rally party.

Euronews

Forgetful Farage shares rose-tinted memories of Reform’s party conference

Oops, Nige skipped over the most embarrassing and dark details – let’s set the record straight

The Guardian - UK

RN 'breach': Amid 'severe' differences with 'bright, young' Bardella, Le Pen 'dictates party line'

François Picard is pleased to welcome Victor Mallet, Financial Times Senior Editor at the World News Desk. He interprets the emerging tensions between Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella as more than a clash of personalities. They reveal a deeper struggle over the political future of France's far-right National Rally…

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French police officers suspended over racist video as far-right links emerge

Four municipal police officers in the southern French city of Carcassonne remain suspended on Thursday as prosecutors investigate racist, sexist and homophobic remarks caught on a police body camera.

Radio France Internationale

Reform insists National Rally agreed migrant policy after backlash in France

Critics say agreement between Nigel Farage and Jordan Bardella to return migrants to France goes against France’s ‘interests and sovereignty’

The Guardian - UK

A Reform UK without Nigel Farage used to be unthinkable. Not any more

The scandals are building, his touch perhaps not quite what it was. And, most of all, his party rivals are beginning to sense an opportunity, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

AfD victory exposes divisions in France’s far-right as National Rally stays silent

France’s far-right responded in markedly different ways to the AfD’s sweeping victory in Germany’s regional elections, with the National Rally (RN) maintaining a conspicuous silence on Monday while Éric Zemmour’s Reconquête openly celebrated the result.

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Voices: Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch are locked in a fight to destroy each other

If the Reform leader walks away, Badenoch will be the winner, writes John Rentoul

The Independent UK

Two senior Reform UK officials resign as Farage faces fresh foreign donations scandal

Two senior officials from the hard-right Reform UK party stepped down Friday following a hidden-camera investigation that appeared to show them soliciting substantial foreign funding for party-commissioned opinion polls and a potential £500,000 donation from a US donor – banned under UK law.

France 24

Bardella signs pact with Farage to stop small boat crossings 'forever'

At the Reform UK Party conference on Friday, Nigel Farage and Jordan Bardella signed an agreement, vowing to end irregular migrant crossings "forever", should their respective parties come to power.

Euronews

Nigel Farage 'didn't give a second thought' to illegal £500,000 offer

NIGEL Farage has claimed he “didn’t give it a second thought” when he was offered an illegal £500,000 donation.

The National (Scotland)

Farage and Le Pen’s prodigy Bardella sign pact to ‘stop small boats forever’

The Reform UK leader and National Rally president pledged a new ‘entente cordiale’ between the UK and France

The Independent UK

Bardella to meet with Farage at Reform party conference in Birmingham, as part of international tour

Jordan Bardella and Nigel Farage are set to discuss illegal migration, as well as joint cooperation between the UK and France aimed at tackling small boat crossing at the Reform party conference on Friday.

Euronews

How France and Britain’s far right are building a populist ‘entente cordiale’

Jordan Bardella will address Reform UK's party conference in Birmingham on Friday, putting the French far-right leader alongside Nigel Farage as both men seek to strengthen their political profiles. The appearance also marks closer ties between two of Europe's most successful populist radical-right parties that share similar positions on immigration…

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Bardella, Faure, Lecornu, Hollande, Philippe: Political season begins in France

Between the 2027 presidential campaign and talks on the next budget, several leading French politicians were out in force on Saturday 29 August.

The Guardian - UK

French far-right leader Jordan Bardella to address Reform UK party conference

Speech part of effort to strengthen National Rally party’s international ties before Marine Le Pen’s presidential bid

The Guardian - UK

Marine Le Pen’s career has been resurrected – and she is a bigger threat than ever

No longer banned from next year’s presidential election, Le Pen is a far more formidable force than her understudy, Jordan Bardella, says Mujtaba Rahman of Europe at Eurasia Group

The Independent UK

Le Pen has one last chance to win power in France – can she do it with an ankle tag?

IN FOCUS: The far-right leader has defied calls to hand the leadership bid to protege Jordan Bardella despite previously saying she would not run for president with an ankle tag. Experts tell James C. Reynolds that she still faces significant challenges

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The Rise and Pause of Jordan Bardella

The political landscape in France changed this week after the appeal court judges upheld the guilty verdict against Marine Le Pen for misappropriating European Parliament funds, but reduced the five-year ban on her standing for public office to fifteen months. Time already served, said the Paris court. With Marine Le…

The Guardian - UK

‘Politicians have always been schemers’: upheld conviction fails to dent Le Pen’s popularity

Presidential bid by leader of far-right National Rally has no shortage of supporters in scenic Montargis

The Guardian - UK

Populism unites Le Pen and Farage. But she is a step closer to power

Marine Le Pen is a convicted criminal. But now she’s running for office and there is still no credible candidate to oppose her, says the academic Catherine Fieschi

The Guardian - UK

Marine Le Pen ‘wants to talk politics’, but can she drown out the legal noise?

The French far-right leader’s presidential campaign is clouded in uncertainty under the shadow of an embezzlement conviction

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Marine Le Pen’s candidacy: a dangerous gamble

Editorial: The far-right leader has reached for the Trumpian playbook in plotting a possible path to the Élysée. The consequences are alarmingly unpredictable

The Guardian - UK

Marine Le Pen will run for election in 2027. Will she have to wear an electronic tag?

Court clears way for RN leader to be candidate after she was confirmed guilty of overseeing a scheme in which she misused more than €4m

The Conversation

‘Let the people judge me’: how Marine Le Pen and Nigel Farage learned a potent populist tactic from Donald Trump

The European populist right has been at the top of the political agenda in recent days.

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