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After winning a plurality in National Assembly, France’s left-wing coalition plans to name PM candidate this week.

Leaders may now have to deal with new costs and complexity as old rules are battled in court.

Tactical voting kept the far right from election victory – but with gridlock in parliament the future is unclear, say Rym Momtaz and others

French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal offers resignation to President Macron amidst election results, just weeks before the Paris Olympic Games.

The Far Right may not have won a majority in yesterday’s snap parliamentary elections, but this failure cannot disguise the growing popularity of Marine le Pen’s party. Peter Allen reports from Paris

France's allies in Europe expressed relief after the far-right National Rally failed to win snap parliamentary elections – but with no other group winning a majority and protracted uncertainty looming, the celebrations were measured.

Live coverage of business, economics and markets as Jonathan Haskel says UK ‘inflation will remain above target for quite some time’

Watch a view of the French National Assembly on Monday 8 July after surprise election results.

Prime Minister Gabriel Attal offers resignation after Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance comes in second place - but president asks him to stay on to ‘ensure stability’

France was in the hands of a caretaker government on Monday after snap parliamentary elections defeated the far right but failed to produce a majority for any political camp. With parliament roughly divided into three disparate groups, there are no obvious candidates for the prime minister who will lead a…

In today’s newsletter: A shock defeat for the far right National Rally in France, while in the UK the new Labour government gets down to work