Emmanuel Macron scrambles to form left-wing and centrist alliance in bid to block hard right National Rally party from taking power after the French president’s snap election misfire – as Keir Starmer says he WOULD work with Marine Le Pen

Emmanuel Macron is scrambling to form a centrist and left-wing alliance to block the far right National Rally party from taking control of France’s government, after the president’s snap election backfired. The last-minute scramble comes after the French president’s humiliation in the first round of voting. Marine Le Pen gleefully declared that Macron’s party had been ‘wiped