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(FILES) Head of the Task Force for Relations with the UK, Michel Barnier poses during a photo session on May 11 , 2021 in Paris. Michel Barnier was named as France's new prime minister, the Elysee palace announced on September 5, 2024, almost two months after legislative elections left the country in political deadlock. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP)

Macron names Barnier as French PM

French President Emmanuel Macron has named the EU’s former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as new prime minister, following almost two months of political deadlock.

UK ElectionsWorld
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage reacts after being elected to become MP for Clacton at the Clacton count centre in Clacton-on-Sea, eastern England, early on July 5, 2024. Britain's main opposition Labour party looks set for a landslide election win, exit polls indicated, with Keir Starmer replacing Rishi Sunak as prime minister, ending 14 years of Conservative rule. Sunak's Tories would only get 131 -- a record low -- with the right-wing vote apparently spliced by Nigel Farage's anti-immigration Reform UK party, which could bag 13 seats. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

Farage’s Reform UK rises from thin air

Brexit champion Nigel Farage has declared he is ‘coming for Labour’ as he storms into parliament on his eighth attempt and his Reform party eats into Conservative votes.

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