France in chaos as Brexit-hating PM Barnier OUSTED in humiliating no-confidence vote

France’s Prime Minister, ex-EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, has been ousted following a vote of no confidence from the French parliament.

Barnier had been named in the role a day short of three months ago – and has become the country’s shortest-serving PM in decades as a result.

Both right and left-wing lawmakers joined forces to back the no-confidence motion against Barnier and his government, with a majority of 331 votes in support of the motion.

The unlikely coalition forced through the motion after Barnier controversially used special constitutional powers to ram through part of an unpopular budget with no final vote in the French parliament.

French firebrand Marine Le Pen said the move was “the only way the constitution gives us to protect the French from a dangerous, unfair and punitive budget”.

The humiliating vote is the first of its kind in 62 years – Georges Pompidou’s government suffered the same fate in 1962.

President Emmanuel Macron’s appointment of Barnier to the PM role had been met with utter fury from parties further to his left and right earlier this year.

The left-wing New Popular Front had taken home 180 seats – more than Macron’s Ensemble party’s 159 – while the right-wing alliance had received 125.

Both parties had seen their seat count increase by significant margins, while Macron’s party lost out – and now, fears are rising that the left and right could take down the President’s next PM picks until he resigns.

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