Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally has made further gains ahead of the first round of France’s snap legislative election on Sunday, according to Bloomberg’s poll of polls. We also spoke to former UK Chancellor Philip Hammond, who called Reform Leader, Nigel Farage a ‘Russian apologist’ after Farage claimed that the West provoked Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
Today’s guests: Philip Hammond, Former UK Chancellor, Defence Sec & Foreign Sec; Wei Li, BlackRock
00:00 Welcome
01:18 German June Ifo business confidence data
04:35 Philip Hammond, Former UK Chancellor
14:26 Wei Li, BlackRock
21:08 Headlines
22:38 Macron defends calling for snap election
27:08 Investors on edge over latest French polls
03:33 Fed’s Daly on AI development
32:05 China, EU agree to hold talks on EV tariffs
39:40 UK election in focus
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