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The Edition: Can Macron still control France? with Louis Sarkozy & Loyd Grossman
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For this week’s Edition , Lara Prendergast is joined by the Spectator ’s economics editor Michael Simmons, writer Louis Sarkozy and broadcaster Sir Loyd Grossman. This week: is France heading for revolution? As protests and unrest grip the country, Louis argues that France faces overlapping political, economic, demographic and security crises – and warns that the turmoil is likely to have consequences for next year’s presidential election. Is Macron losing control? Could Marine Le Pen finally take power? And to what extent are the violent riots uniquely French, or part of a wider European unrest? Also: why does Napoleon still loom so large over French politics and culture? Louis discusses…