Why Marine Le Pen won't win

The French press are faithfully relaying news from Britain about the looming loss of City jobs, and foreign investors’ worries about the country ending up outside the EU single market and customs union.

As news of Britain’s bleak economic prospects intensifies, Le Pen will face unpleasant questions on her pet project of putting the possibility of a “Frexit” to a referendum.

Trump’s election came as a shock to France, but its political effect so far is still unclear. It was so thoroughly unexpected that most still can’t believe it. In September, Nicolas Sarkozy tried to portray himself as the French Trump for a couple of weeks — but he was massacred in the primary of the French centre-right Républicains party as a result.