Marine Le Pen is now willing to sacrifice her father in order to defend French Jews

Marine Le Pen, leader of the French Front National, really is determined to muzzle her father Jean-Marie Le Pen once and for all after his latest refusal to shut up about the Holocaust. On Monday, she won round one after it was revealed that her father would no longer stand in the regional elections.

During the departmental election campaign last month, Monsieur Le Pen flouted his daughter’s orders and deployed his usual stock put-downs of the Holocaust as, for example, ‘a detail of history’. Marine was furious with her father, the founder and honorary president of the FN, and ordered him to appear before a party disciplinary committee at which, if no alternative were found, she would ensure he be banned from standing in the key December regional elections. They have not spoken, it is reported, for a fortnight.

His ‘vulgar provocations seemingly designed to damage me but that unfortunately hit the whole movement’ are ‘political suicide,’ Marine told the press.