Inside Politics: Ukrainian president will be 22nd person to address joint sitting of Houses
Michel Barnier
Popular Party laud Vox deal for ‘regional stability’ but critics portray it as ‘terrible news’
Polls show Macron with a comfortable lead at 28 per cent in the first round, up from 25 per cent last month
Party’s first woman nominee for role defeated favourites Barnier and Bertrand
Ciotti and Pécresse battle for dominance after party’s shock first-round primary result
Six months before the presidential election a poll shows newcomer could be pitted against Macron
The resignation of Austria’s chancellor Sebastian Kurz takes off stage a man seen by many in the party as its most effective model of a new more right-wing challenge to the politics of populism that have eroded the base of Europe’s centrist parties
Flood of sympathetic and uncritical messages to Sarkozy from the right