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