Europe must not "punish" Britain over Brexit, the new head of the French conservatives has warned, as he urged a "rethink" of the EU with a tailor-made regime for the UK.
In his first British interview since clinching the leadership of The Republicans, France’s main opposition party, Laurent Wauquiez took aim at President Emmanuel Macron’s "headlong rush towards federalism" and French "arrogance" in dealing with its neighbours.
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A former minister in Nicolas Sarkozy’s administration, Mr Wauquiez now faces the daunting task of rebuilding a conservative party which dominated French politics for 40 of the past 60 years but lies in ruins after Mr Macron’s May election shattered the two-party political…
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