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France and Britain are changing places
Europe looks leaderless at a time of mounting global threats.
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Britain's new Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivering his first speech outside 10 Downing Street in London on July 5.
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Gideon Rachman
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Britain and France are sitting on opposite ends of a political see-saw. Three days after Britain elected a pragmatic, centrist government with a huge majority, France went to the opposite extreme. The July 7 legislative elections have produced a deadlocked Parliament,
In Britain, the period of political chaos that began with the Brexit vote of 2016 may finally have ended. But in France, a prolonged period of political instability is probably just beginning.
