‘High-tension politics’: As Barnier pushes ahead with high-stakes budget, ‘will govt stand or fall’?

French PM Michel Barnier faces a hostile parliament as his government moves full-speed ahead with a highly unpopular budget. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on a volatile vote featuring unlikely bedfellows: the left-wing Popular Front and far-right National Rally (RN) on a no-confidence collision course with the conservative prime minister, FRANCE 24’s Eve Irvine welcomes Dr. Andrew Smith, Historian of modern France and Lecturer in Liberal Arts at Queen Mary University of London.