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Here is my commode with some thoughts about the latest films in | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
the Film Review. -- Mark Kermode. Hello and welcome to a look at what | :00:08. | :00:24. | |
the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
With me are Tim Stanley, Columnist at The Daily Telegraph | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
and Benedicte Paviot, UK Correspondent at the French | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
Welcome to you both. Tomorrow's front pages, then: | :00:32. | :00:39. | |
The Financial Times headlines Emmanuel Macron's victory | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
in the French Presidential election saying his win | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
calling him 'le Big Mac' after he took over 65% of the vote | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
The Guardian says Mr Macron now has to reunite | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
a divided France after the far right Le Pen received more | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
The Times writes Macron received a landslide victory | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
as France elects it's youngest leader since Napoleon. | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
But The Telegraph warns the Europhile's election | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
could have an affect on Brexit negotiations | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
And the Daily Mail leads with an exclusive in which it | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
says loyalty with an insurer can cost families an extra | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
So it is mostly going to be about Emmanuel Macron, but we will be | :01:14. | :01:30. | |
hearing from Tim and what has been written about John McDonnell, just | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
to be evenhanded. That's start with Emmanuel Macron's victory. He said | :01:37. | :01:46. | |
that he will be stepping down as leader of his party in order to | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
focus on the new job of president. I'm getting into the air drains as | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
it. I'm sensitive about young people doing so much, so young. He is only | :01:55. | :02:06. | |
39! I am 35. I might some day want to be, so I see as competition. His | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
party has only been around for a year. It is really only a movement. | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
It does not have a single seat in Parliament. And yet in this extra | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
ordinary revolution in French politics, seeing off the Gaullists | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
and the Socialists, he went up against Marine Le Pen and took 65% | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
of the vote. It is extraordinary. But the vote was held under unusual | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
circumstances, with the establishment coming around to | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
support him against the National Front. On this basis, does this mean | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
that he really is a vote for change? Or is he simply a reaction by the | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
establishment against the Nationalists. That is the big test. | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
Can he be more than simply be Le Pen candidate? Can he pushed through | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
with his agenda and the more than a protest vote. It is not just a | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
protest against the protest vote or he would not have beaten the | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
candidates in the first one. What is significant and is not being | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
mentioned in these excellent articles I'm seeing, no, let me make | :03:15. | :03:26. | |
a serious point, and that is that France has tried and failed to have | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
primary is that select candidates that when a presidential election. | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
It is an American tradition, fine, but I think it has shown that it has | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
not worked very significantly in France, and that is the fact that | :03:45. | :04:05. | |
firstly Le -- right has chosen him over Alain Juppe. It was first | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
thought that Alain Juppe's politics would appeal to a wider range, not | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
just on the right, but also on the left. No, it was Francois Fillon who | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
was chosen. Then the Socialists chose somebody who was very much on | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
the very left of the left. And this man, a manual micron, who was in the | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
Socialist government, who was finance minister for two years, and | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
was financial adviser for President Hollande, he has won the election | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
fair and square. Not just because he is offering something different. Not | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
because he is a protest vote to Le Pen, but because the centre ground | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
was freed by the beleaguered Francois Fillon, with allegations of | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
misuse of funds, allegedly, for employing member of his family... | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
That left the centre opened for this man to say it is not about left or | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
right but about solutions for the country. | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
We do have to show the papers are sometime. Let's just go to the | :05:14. | :05:29. | |
Times. It is a fascinating analysis. The evocation of the Republicans | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
choosing Donald Trump is that they are talking to extremes. Only | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
Clinton was not, because they chose her over Bernie Sanders. This | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
suggests this system is not not working, but that voters are | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
responding to stresses that are real. They are reacting to left | :05:49. | :06:00. | |
austerity, or the right, with immigration. You have the resurgent | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
hard left. You had a Catholic right in Francois Fillon. They went with | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
this chap. But don't forget that he needed about 24% in the first round. | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
I was at about to forget it. But to imply that he won the first round... | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
He did, but by default, because all the other options divide up the | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
vote. He won a plurality, but a low variety. Cloud over Brexit. Our | :06:32. | :06:41. | |
Prime Minister has been on the phone to Emmanuel Macron to congratulate | :06:42. | :06:52. | |
him. The statement says that the leaders discussed Brexit and that | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
the Prime Minister emphasised that Britain wants a secure relationship | :06:58. | :07:08. | |
with the EU after we leave. They have met in Downing Street because | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
Theresa May actually invited him to come and meet her in Downing Street. | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
That was in February. And it will be interesting to see how that | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
relationship develops. And what policies come out of it. There is | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
the small matter of things like, well, Brexit, but also, of course, | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
about immigration and Borders, and for example what will be happening | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
around the Channel Tunnel and so on. But of course, France and Britain | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
co-operate on a variety of things. So there is a connection, even if | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
the relationship is occasionally tested. And it will be tested by | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
Brexit. And let's remember that this May chose not to meet Marine Le Pen | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
will stop even after she was pressed to do so. -- Mrs May. She did not | :08:06. | :08:18. | |
meet marina plan. -- Marine Le Pen. Marine Le Pen defeated, but | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
negotiations to become tougher? This an interesting question. Has | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
populism been stopped. Obviously, lastly we had Brexit, and then | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
trump. Some people say there was a momentum across the world for | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
populism, nationalism, and conservatism. And then go to | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
builders did not do so well. To me, what that tells me is that every | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
election is different. -- Geert Wilders. There are always local | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
factors on the ground and each context is different. Even if some | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
of those people see themselves as having something in common. | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
Obviously, Donald Trump, he was seen as in favour of Marine Le Pen. But | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
the choice is different. Ultimately, Donald Trump was embraced by the | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
Republican Party. Now he is being slowly absorbed by it. By contrast, | :09:17. | :09:25. | |
the Marine Le Pen challenge, the pitch, that was a far right one, | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
which posed a much bigger challenge to European citizen than either | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
Brexit or Donald Trump. Do you think that Donald Trump is good to be a | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
run-of-the-mill republican president? That is what he is being | :09:39. | :09:48. | |
turned into. He has really been sending out missiles in the case of | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
Syria, his foreign policy is fairly said. And what is he focusing on? | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
Obamacare repeal and tax cuts. That is basic Republican stuff. Now he's | :10:01. | :10:09. | |
the White House, he is not a strong right leader. But we have the | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
Parliamentary elections coming up soon. That is right. Well, a French | :10:14. | :10:26. | |
president is the head of policy. Or she, it could have been. We have not | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
had a fever president, yet. And we don't again, tonight. We have a | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
young 39-year-old. -- female president. He has the power to | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
appoint a Prime Minister to dissolve the government and governed by | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
decree. So in case of real emergencies and war. And also to | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
declare war. So he is not at that stage. We are going to see the | :10:52. | :11:00. | |
transfer of power from the outgoing Socialist leader to this address. He | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
will need support. He's getting it from the Socialist. In the large | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
part. Not on the extreme left. We will see what happens there. He has | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
had in this campaign and we need to see continued support from the | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
Republicans. He will not be to introduce the reforms that he says | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
he really wants to introduce. The Telegraph is where we finish. John | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
McDonnell resists attempts to oust him. He is the right-hand man to | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
Jeremy Corbyn. He praised Karl Marx's cellar work. I wrote about | :11:48. | :12:01. | |
this. -- salmon all. -- seminal work. He said he is not the | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
Socialist, but he said that he believed that people could learn a | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
lot from Das Kapital. He said earlier that he was a Marxist. So | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
what changed his mind? They do say that as you get older, you do get | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
more right wing. So maybe has moved back more to the centre-left. I | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
think that is unlikely. He also said in this interview, which I find | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
fascinating, is that he is said that if he is elected, he will be the | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
first Socialist Chancellor in the Labour tradition. He believes that | :12:40. | :12:48. | |
those who came before him were not true socialist, and he will be the | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
real thing. So on the one hand, he says that he is not a Marxist, but | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
advises people to read Das Kapital. So we can recently in so that the | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
answer to the question is that yes, he is a Marxist. Other people in the | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
party are not happy with this. No, indeed. And indeed, your colleagues | :13:07. | :13:14. | |
say that he faces a labour revolt. -- Labour. That is it fought the | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
paper Sanaya. Don't forget all the pages online seven days a week. Go | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
to our website. -- that is all fought the papers, tonight. Or the | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
papers publish shortly after we finish. This programme is also on | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
the eye player. There is the address. You know it better than I | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
do. Do buy a newspaper tomorrow. I don't mind which one. Give us a bit | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
of talk about. -- iPlayer. They give a much for joining us. Coming up | :13:51. | :13:58. | |
next, the Film Review. -- thank you very much. | :13:59. | :13:59. |