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Michel Barnier has promised to respond to the ‘anger’ of the people in his first speech as prime minister of France. Speaking at the handover ceremony with his predecessor Gabriel Attal in Paris, Barnier said his new role would concentrate on fixing a raft of problems causing resentment among French voters. “It will be about responding as much as we can to the challenges, anger that you talked about, to the suffering, to the feeling of abandonment, injustice that run, far too much, through our cities, our neighbourhoods and our countryside,” he said. President Emmanuel Macron named Barnier as …

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