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The Lesson From French and British Elections: Incumbents Beware
Today on the Big Take podcast: reaction to the surprise election result in France, and a break-down of the Labour Party’s win in Britain.
A participant waves a French national tricolor during an election night rally in Paris on July 7.
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French voters shocked the world on Sunday by rejecting Marine Le Pen’s efforts to see her far-right National Rally party take control of France’s legislature. And across the channel in Britain, a new government is set to enter parliament on Tuesday after voters last week gave the country’s left-leaning Labour Party a majority.