内容摘要：Prosecutors are seeking to recover more than 3m euros (£2.5m). The RN already paid back 1m euros (£834,000) - which it said was not an admission of guilt.

Prosecutors are seeking to recover more than 3m euros (£2.5m). The RN already paid back 1m euros (£834,000) - which it said was not an admission of guilt.

But I think there are a lot of parents who will be kind of thinking “Oh, actually, I'm not sure I am going to send my kids to private school if there is a 20% increase in fees" and all that does is push the house prices up next to those really attractive state schools.I don’t think this is the easy win for social mobility that it is perhaps being portrayed as.

By the time students are in sixth form post 16, it's something like 17%, possibly higher, of that age group are in the private sector. And that could create some problems for the state sector, couldn't it?It’s 17% of people doing A levels. But of course, only 40% of young people do A levels.I don't think it's going to be a big problem. You might have small parts of the country which have a lot of private schools, like Surrey or Kensington, where if you've got a couple of private school closures you might see a bit of pressure on some local schools. But it's very marginal.

The state sector absorbed 20,000 Ukrainian refugee children in a year without any problem at all. The state sector is so much bigger than the private sector at absorbing a small number of children coming across. It really shouldn't be a problem.Kristina, there has been a phenomenal increase in fees in recent years, up by, I think, 24% above inflation just in the last decade. And that hasn't seen numbers reduced.

No, it hasn't. And I think partly that is because of demand internationally.

Anecdotally, I'm amazed - for example - when I'm doing 11-plus interviews how many kids I'm interviewing who are living abroad, living in Hong Kong, whose parents are willing to move over specifically to send their child to [a private] school because of the reputation.In Mennecy, a sleepy town in the Essonne area south of Paris, Mathieu Hillaire was holding his final campaign event as Popular Front candidate. He is in a duel with RN candidate Nathalie Da Conceicao Carvalho, after the pro-Macron candidate pulled out to give her left-wing rival a better chance of blocking the far right.

Mr Hillaire said while the climate was less tense locally than elsewhere some people were still worried: “Of the voters that I’ve met, there are many who are scared of Jordan Bardella.”Many of RN’s policies focus on cutting the cost of living and tackling law and order, but their anti-immigration plans have raised particular concerns.

RN aims to give French citizens “national preference” over immigrants for jobs and housing, and wants to abolish the right to automatic French citizenship for children of foreign parents, if those children have spent five years in France from the age of 11 to 18.Dual citizens would also be barred from dozens of sensitive jobs.