France’s Benoit Hamon rouses Socialists with basic income plan

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French Socialists in hunt for the candidate with a populist touch to challenge Le Pen In the centre of Trappes, in Paris’s western suburbs, a group of young men are handing out flyers urging locals to vote for Benoît Hamon. Neither the name nor the face is familiar in Britain, but that could well be about to change today. “Vote for this man and you will see the real France,” says one, thrusting a leaflet into my hand. It sounds more like a threat than a promise, but this rather gritty Parisian banlieue – the subject of […]

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