The strange death of European populism?

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Elsewhere, True Finns were effectively kicked out of the Finnish government after their coalition partners refused to deal with their new leader, who has compared Islam to paedophilia and wants to leave the EU. In France, Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche trounced Marine Le Pen’s Front National in the legislative election. In Britain, UKIP’s share of the vote fell to 2 per cent from 12.6 per cent in 2015.