“Head high, clean hands” was once a slogan of the far-right, anti-immigration National Rally party to distance itself from what it called greedy traditional politicians’ crooked ways.

But this week, a political earthquake has sent shockwaves that are almost certain to end Marine Le Pen’s ambitions for the 2027 presidential election and throws her far-right party into chaos just as it was setting its sights on taking power in France.

The conviction of Le Pen and 24 other party members for embezzlement of European parliament funds is a huge blow to a far-right party that has long tried to present itself

as the squeaky-clean alternative to old-school politicians with their hands in the till.

In this week’s episode, we’re on the ground in Washington DC with Bernard-Henri Lévy, noted public intellectual and political commentator and in Paris with Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, a French journalist, writer and columnist to ask if this really is the end for Marine Le Pen.

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