French President Emmanuel Macron is continuing his search for a new prime minister, almost two months after inconclusive snap elections. He’s meeting with two of his predecessors, François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy, as well as two other senior French politicians who are both tipped as candidates to be the next premier. The latter are Bernard Cazeneuve (pictured), a former member of the Socialist Party, and Xavier Bertrand, a member of the conservative Les Républicains party and president of the northern Hauts-de-France region. For the first in a new series of Perspective we spoke to Renaud Foucart, a senior lecturer in economics at Lancaster University Management School.