INTERVIEW – TOM ROGAN – is a contributor to the Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential blog AND he is a foreign policy columnist for National Review, and a senior fellow at the Steamboat Institute.

• Far-right leader Marine Le Pen and independent centrist Emmanuel Macron have made it to the second round. 36.7 million voted, a turnout of 78.2 per cent; Macron won 23.9 per cent of the vote, Le Pen 21.4. (Daily Mail) — French voters turned their backs on the political establishment last night in round one of the presidential election.
• Emmanuel Macron – an independent centrist – won first place ahead of National Front leader Marine Le Pen. The result will have major implications for Britain and its departure from the EU. Miss Le Pen wants to completely renegotiate France’s relationship with Brussels while Mr Macron wants closer links. According to France’s Interior Ministry, 46 million people voted in the first stage of the elections which knocked the traditional Right and Left parties out of the running for the first time in 60 years. With 97 per cent of the vote counted, Macron achieved 23.9 per cent, followed by Le Pen on 21.4. A total of 36.7million voted, a turnout of 78.2 per cent.