Bashing Brexit won’t help Macron defeat Le Pen

The Prime Minister of France has warned his people that any form of Frexit would leave them weeping into their pastis. ‘Don’t be like the British who cried after Brexit,’ said Gabriel Attal, in a radio interview on Thursday.  ‘A large majority of British people regret Brexit and sometimes regret not turning out to vote, or voting for something that was negative for their country.’

Attal then cited a couple of examples of this negativity; what he described as ‘massive economic difficulties’ and more ‘illegal immigration than ever’.

The man described as a ‘mini-Macron’ has clearly inherited some of his master’s animus towards Brexit. In 2021 the president of France described the Leave vote as the result of ‘lies and false promises.’

Attal’s Brexit bashing is an indication of the panic spreading through the ruling party. The European elections are just over a week away, and Macron’s candidate, Valerie Hayer, is stuck on 16 per cent in the polls, half that of the frontrunner, Jordan Bardella, of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally.