Forget being French president; Marine Le Pen is lucky not to be in prison. Why is she in public life at all? | Rokhaya Diallo

The far right leader’s career is not the issue: it’s whether a politician with her record has a legitimate right to seek office For many years, I have observed Marine Le Pen and her party and how they operate in France. I have heard their xenophobic, anti-immigrant rhetoric and felt it contaminate French political life. It is a rhetoric rooted in the history of a party founded by figures from France’s postwar far right. Nothing they do or say surprises me any more. But even by their standards...

By Rokhaya Diallo