France’s far-right chief pledges to clean up public finances

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France’s far-right chief Jordan Bardella has pledged to stick to “reasonable” spending plans if voters delivered him a parliamentary majority propelling him to become prime minister.

With markets jittery over political uncertainty in the eurozone’s second-largest economy, Rassemblement National party officials…