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Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, the niece of Front National leader Marine Le Pen and one of the far-right party’s only two MPs, is abandoning politics after her aunt’s heavy defeat to centrist Emmanuel Macron in Sunday’s French presidential run-off.
In a letter to her local paper to be published in full on Wednesday, the 27-year-old, a hugely popular figure with activists, said she would not be standing for re-election in next month’s general election, exposing deep divisions in the party. Read more HERE
The Labour party has hinted that it will pledge to abolish university tuition fees, with Jeremy Corbyn saying he has “some stuff in his pocket” for higher education, but that it would not be revealed before the manifesto launch next week.
Speaking at Leeds community college on Wednesday, the Labour leader and the shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, refused to rule out honouring a commitment made by Corbyn in his 2015 leadership race to scrap tuition fees. Read more HERE
At £4,650 per person, the six-day guided tour called “Brexit means Brexit!” is not for the mass market but offers select groups of American tourists the chance to “examine the historic implications of a historic vote”.
Travellers will get to listen to politicians, journalists and historians explain just what the prime minister might have meant when she declared Brexit means Brexit, while soaking up some of London’s febrile new political atmosphere along the way. Read more HERE.