'Twilight' of his presidency: 'Macron has painted himself into a corner from which he can't escape'

As France's far-right National Rally threatens to force the collapse of PM Michel Barnier's government, save for a "last minute miracle", FRANCE 24's Genie Godula welcomes Paul Smith, Associate Professor in French History and Politics at the University of Nottingham. While Professor Smith asserts that "Le Pen is provoking a crisis to deflect attention" from her own legal woes, he lays the blame squarely on Macron: "It's very much his fault for calling for the dissolution in the first place."