On the back of the installation of the fourth prime minister so far this year, National Rally chief Marine Le Pen told Le Parisien that she has begun to “prepare for an early presidential election”.

She said that preparations are being made “as a precaution, given the fragility of Emmanuel Macron, the few institutional levers he has left”.

The president, Le Pen said, has “lost control everywhere” and that for “Emmanuel Macron, it’s over or almost.”