9 July 2025, 13:06 | Updated: 10 July 2025, 00:04

By Suella Braverman

So much for l’Entente Cordiale. When your closest allies begin to lecture you like distant cousins at a family wedding, you have to wonder what friendship truly means.

President Macron’s state visit to Britain has achieved little of substance, but it has done one thing in blazing technicolour: it has confirmed the arrogance of the globalist elites who believe their worldview is not only superior, but unchallengeable. Macron, one-time golden boy of Davos, now reduced to something between a postscript and a cautionary tale, arrived not to build bridges, but to rehearse old dogmas.

There is, of course, a long and complex bond between Britain and France- one built not just on rivalry and shared wars, but on mutual respect. That relationship will endure regardless of who occupies the Élysée or Downing Street. But Macron’s visit was less about diplomacy and more about delusion. His thinly-veiled disdain for Brexit- delivered on the floor of the British Parliament no less- wasn’t just provocative, it was revealing. It told us everything we need to know about the intellectual paralysis afflicting Europe’s ruling class.

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