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International Insider: European Elections; Women In Film & TV; Karlovy Vary & Munich Reports


The UK and French elections, Kate Winslet and reports from Karlovy Vary and the Munich Film Festival are in this week's International Insider.

Notable incidents from the evening saw big-name Tory MPs such as former Prime Minister Liz Truss and Grant Shapps lose their seats, Farage finally become an MP at the eighth attempt and a very, very knotty shipping analogy delivered by Labour Party Health Secretary Wes Streeting during the BBC’s election coverage (once you’ve finished this newsletter, Google it; you’ll thank me). Outgoing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak handed over the keys to Number 10 with a call for “decency and tolerance” in British politics, though with the anti-EU, anti-establishment Reform UK taking more than four million votes overall, there’s stormy weather ahead for the centrist Starmer. Malcolm, who is the first actor or actress to feature in Global Breakouts twice, revealed she and co-creator Dianne Taylor had “talked a lot about the presence of middle-aged women” on screen, noting that before Mare of Easttown launched, much of the representation of this demographic was far from the reality.

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