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While French voters ponder the temptation of the far-right, across the Channel they are also campaigning, only there it feels like revenge of the moderates. Out with Little Britain Brexiteers, out with Jeremy Corbyn’s hard left. In with a more genteel version of the Labour Party. Before 2016, Britain always seemed like that isle of temperance where sure, the tabloid headlines screamed but that was only a bit of fun to sell newspapers.