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Francois Hollande Articles

‘Time to end stitch and fix’

Machine politics has had its day, Chuka Umunna tells Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison Labour must ‘kick machine politics out of the party’, shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has argued. In a passionate defence of Ed Miliband’s party reform plans, the shadow...

If not now, when?

How happy must stopped clocks be on those rare moments when they are right! Small wonder, then, that the likes of Nick Clegg, Mehdi Hasan and George Galloway want to turn the conversation back to Iraq whenever possible. Unfortunately, the anti-war movement is a...

Tests of nerve

His detractors think he’s Neil Kinnock. His adherents think he’s Barack Obama. But the politician who Ed Miliband most resembles is François Hollande. For the most part, that should cheer Labour: President Hollande is, after all, a wonkish and non-traditional leader...

Letter from … Paris

The cheers that accompanied François Hollande’s election seem a distant dream. Dismal economic results, a terrible press at home and abroad, and confusion about what the French president stands for, marred the anniversary of his first year in office on 6 May. His...