Marine Le Pen has had a rollercoaster week. Last Tuesday, she left a Paris courtroom having been found guilty (again) of embezzling more than €2.8m in EU funds into her party, the far-right National Rally, between 2004 and 2016.
Come Wednesday, she had launched her campaign for the French presidency.
Across the channel, her ideological bedfellow Nigel Farage’s week was also eventful.
Already under investigation for secretly accepting £5m from a crypto billionaire, for whom he is accused of lobbying the Bank of England, Farage had to then beat away a Sunday Times investigation into support he received from another crypto fraudster.
His response? Resign from his Clacton seat and trigger a by-election to prove he can win it all over again.
