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:00:00. > :00:07.Here is my commode with some thoughts about the latest films in

:00:08. > :00:24.the Film Review. -- Mark Kermode. Hello and welcome to a look at what

:00:25. > :00:26.the papers will be bringing us tomorrow.

:00:27. > :00:29.With me are Tim Stanley, Columnist at The Daily Telegraph

:00:30. > :00:31.and Benedicte Paviot, UK Correspondent at the French

:00:32. > :00:39.Welcome to you both. Tomorrow's front pages, then:

:00:40. > :00:41.The Financial Times headlines Emmanuel Macron's victory

:00:42. > :00:43.in the French Presidential election saying his win

:00:44. > :00:50.calling him 'le Big Mac' after he took over 65% of the vote

:00:51. > :00:53.The Guardian says Mr Macron now has to reunite

:00:54. > :00:56.a divided France after the far right Le Pen received more

:00:57. > :01:00.The Times writes Macron received a landslide victory

:01:01. > :01:02.as France elects it's youngest leader since Napoleon.

:01:03. > :01:04.But The Telegraph warns the Europhile's election

:01:05. > :01:06.could have an affect on Brexit negotiations

:01:07. > :01:10.And the Daily Mail leads with an exclusive in which it

:01:11. > :01:13.says loyalty with an insurer can cost families an extra

:01:14. > :01:30.So it is mostly going to be about Emmanuel Macron, but we will be

:01:31. > :01:36.hearing from Tim and what has been written about John McDonnell, just

:01:37. > :01:46.to be evenhanded. That's start with Emmanuel Macron's victory. He said

:01:47. > :01:50.that he will be stepping down as leader of his party in order to

:01:51. > :01:54.focus on the new job of president. I'm getting into the air drains as

:01:55. > :02:06.it. I'm sensitive about young people doing so much, so young. He is only

:02:07. > :02:10.39! I am 35. I might some day want to be, so I see as competition. His

:02:11. > :02:14.party has only been around for a year. It is really only a movement.

:02:15. > :02:18.It does not have a single seat in Parliament. And yet in this extra

:02:19. > :02:25.ordinary revolution in French politics, seeing off the Gaullists

:02:26. > :02:28.and the Socialists, he went up against Marine Le Pen and took 65%

:02:29. > :02:36.of the vote. It is extraordinary. But the vote was held under unusual

:02:37. > :02:39.circumstances, with the establishment coming around to

:02:40. > :02:44.support him against the National Front. On this basis, does this mean

:02:45. > :02:49.that he really is a vote for change? Or is he simply a reaction by the

:02:50. > :02:57.establishment against the Nationalists. That is the big test.

:02:58. > :03:01.Can he be more than simply be Le Pen candidate? Can he pushed through

:03:02. > :03:07.with his agenda and the more than a protest vote. It is not just a

:03:08. > :03:11.protest against the protest vote or he would not have beaten the

:03:12. > :03:14.candidates in the first one. What is significant and is not being

:03:15. > :03:26.mentioned in these excellent articles I'm seeing, no, let me make

:03:27. > :03:33.a serious point, and that is that France has tried and failed to have

:03:34. > :03:38.primary is that select candidates that when a presidential election.

:03:39. > :03:44.It is an American tradition, fine, but I think it has shown that it has

:03:45. > :04:05.not worked very significantly in France, and that is the fact that

:04:06. > :04:11.firstly Le -- right has chosen him over Alain Juppe. It was first

:04:12. > :04:16.thought that Alain Juppe's politics would appeal to a wider range, not

:04:17. > :04:23.just on the right, but also on the left. No, it was Francois Fillon who

:04:24. > :04:29.was chosen. Then the Socialists chose somebody who was very much on

:04:30. > :04:34.the very left of the left. And this man, a manual micron, who was in the

:04:35. > :04:41.Socialist government, who was finance minister for two years, and

:04:42. > :04:44.was financial adviser for President Hollande, he has won the election

:04:45. > :04:50.fair and square. Not just because he is offering something different. Not

:04:51. > :04:58.because he is a protest vote to Le Pen, but because the centre ground

:04:59. > :05:03.was freed by the beleaguered Francois Fillon, with allegations of

:05:04. > :05:07.misuse of funds, allegedly, for employing member of his family...

:05:08. > :05:11.That left the centre opened for this man to say it is not about left or

:05:12. > :05:13.right but about solutions for the country.

:05:14. > :05:29.We do have to show the papers are sometime. Let's just go to the

:05:30. > :05:35.Times. It is a fascinating analysis. The evocation of the Republicans

:05:36. > :05:41.choosing Donald Trump is that they are talking to extremes. Only

:05:42. > :05:44.Clinton was not, because they chose her over Bernie Sanders. This

:05:45. > :05:48.suggests this system is not not working, but that voters are

:05:49. > :06:00.responding to stresses that are real. They are reacting to left

:06:01. > :06:06.austerity, or the right, with immigration. You have the resurgent

:06:07. > :06:11.hard left. You had a Catholic right in Francois Fillon. They went with

:06:12. > :06:17.this chap. But don't forget that he needed about 24% in the first round.

:06:18. > :06:24.I was at about to forget it. But to imply that he won the first round...

:06:25. > :06:31.He did, but by default, because all the other options divide up the

:06:32. > :06:41.vote. He won a plurality, but a low variety. Cloud over Brexit. Our

:06:42. > :06:52.Prime Minister has been on the phone to Emmanuel Macron to congratulate

:06:53. > :06:57.him. The statement says that the leaders discussed Brexit and that

:06:58. > :07:08.the Prime Minister emphasised that Britain wants a secure relationship

:07:09. > :07:12.with the EU after we leave. They have met in Downing Street because

:07:13. > :07:20.Theresa May actually invited him to come and meet her in Downing Street.

:07:21. > :07:24.That was in February. And it will be interesting to see how that

:07:25. > :07:29.relationship develops. And what policies come out of it. There is

:07:30. > :07:33.the small matter of things like, well, Brexit, but also, of course,

:07:34. > :07:38.about immigration and Borders, and for example what will be happening

:07:39. > :07:44.around the Channel Tunnel and so on. But of course, France and Britain

:07:45. > :07:52.co-operate on a variety of things. So there is a connection, even if

:07:53. > :07:58.the relationship is occasionally tested. And it will be tested by

:07:59. > :08:05.Brexit. And let's remember that this May chose not to meet Marine Le Pen

:08:06. > :08:18.will stop even after she was pressed to do so. -- Mrs May. She did not

:08:19. > :08:25.meet marina plan. -- Marine Le Pen. Marine Le Pen defeated, but

:08:26. > :08:29.negotiations to become tougher? This an interesting question. Has

:08:30. > :08:35.populism been stopped. Obviously, lastly we had Brexit, and then

:08:36. > :08:40.trump. Some people say there was a momentum across the world for

:08:41. > :08:44.populism, nationalism, and conservatism. And then go to

:08:45. > :08:52.builders did not do so well. To me, what that tells me is that every

:08:53. > :08:55.election is different. -- Geert Wilders. There are always local

:08:56. > :09:01.factors on the ground and each context is different. Even if some

:09:02. > :09:06.of those people see themselves as having something in common.

:09:07. > :09:11.Obviously, Donald Trump, he was seen as in favour of Marine Le Pen. But

:09:12. > :09:16.the choice is different. Ultimately, Donald Trump was embraced by the

:09:17. > :09:25.Republican Party. Now he is being slowly absorbed by it. By contrast,

:09:26. > :09:30.the Marine Le Pen challenge, the pitch, that was a far right one,

:09:31. > :09:34.which posed a much bigger challenge to European citizen than either

:09:35. > :09:38.Brexit or Donald Trump. Do you think that Donald Trump is good to be a

:09:39. > :09:48.run-of-the-mill republican president? That is what he is being

:09:49. > :09:53.turned into. He has really been sending out missiles in the case of

:09:54. > :10:00.Syria, his foreign policy is fairly said. And what is he focusing on?

:10:01. > :10:09.Obamacare repeal and tax cuts. That is basic Republican stuff. Now he's

:10:10. > :10:13.the White House, he is not a strong right leader. But we have the

:10:14. > :10:26.Parliamentary elections coming up soon. That is right. Well, a French

:10:27. > :10:31.president is the head of policy. Or she, it could have been. We have not

:10:32. > :10:37.had a fever president, yet. And we don't again, tonight. We have a

:10:38. > :10:42.young 39-year-old. -- female president. He has the power to

:10:43. > :10:47.appoint a Prime Minister to dissolve the government and governed by

:10:48. > :10:51.decree. So in case of real emergencies and war. And also to

:10:52. > :11:00.declare war. So he is not at that stage. We are going to see the

:11:01. > :11:08.transfer of power from the outgoing Socialist leader to this address. He

:11:09. > :11:13.will need support. He's getting it from the Socialist. In the large

:11:14. > :11:19.part. Not on the extreme left. We will see what happens there. He has

:11:20. > :11:26.had in this campaign and we need to see continued support from the

:11:27. > :11:31.Republicans. He will not be to introduce the reforms that he says

:11:32. > :11:39.he really wants to introduce. The Telegraph is where we finish. John

:11:40. > :11:47.McDonnell resists attempts to oust him. He is the right-hand man to

:11:48. > :12:01.Jeremy Corbyn. He praised Karl Marx's cellar work. I wrote about

:12:02. > :12:08.this. -- salmon all. -- seminal work. He said he is not the

:12:09. > :12:15.Socialist, but he said that he believed that people could learn a

:12:16. > :12:23.lot from Das Kapital. He said earlier that he was a Marxist. So

:12:24. > :12:27.what changed his mind? They do say that as you get older, you do get

:12:28. > :12:30.more right wing. So maybe has moved back more to the centre-left. I

:12:31. > :12:35.think that is unlikely. He also said in this interview, which I find

:12:36. > :12:39.fascinating, is that he is said that if he is elected, he will be the

:12:40. > :12:48.first Socialist Chancellor in the Labour tradition. He believes that

:12:49. > :12:52.those who came before him were not true socialist, and he will be the

:12:53. > :12:57.real thing. So on the one hand, he says that he is not a Marxist, but

:12:58. > :13:01.advises people to read Das Kapital. So we can recently in so that the

:13:02. > :13:06.answer to the question is that yes, he is a Marxist. Other people in the

:13:07. > :13:14.party are not happy with this. No, indeed. And indeed, your colleagues

:13:15. > :13:21.say that he faces a labour revolt. -- Labour. That is it fought the

:13:22. > :13:27.paper Sanaya. Don't forget all the pages online seven days a week. Go

:13:28. > :13:34.to our website. -- that is all fought the papers, tonight. Or the

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