School of Politics and International Relations

Dr Rainbow Murray, What’s next for Marine Le Pen and France’s far right?

10 May 2017

Marine Le Pen received just under 34 per cent of the vote, a landslide loss that fell short of her National Front party’s expectations. In her concession speech on Sunday, Le Pen acknowledged that the National Front would need to undergo a ‘deep transformation’. Professor Rainbow Murray said: “the reason that the party brand is still toxic is because her discourse still is. I don’t think a new name is going to change what the party is.”
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