"I'm lucky to have you by my side," Valerie Hayer tells Gabriel Attal in Saint-Denis-d'Anjou, on his home turf in north-west France, in the final hours of the European election campaign. They appeared together after the opposition accused the French Prime Minister of machismo when he unexpectedly invited himself onto a Radio France set where Valerie Hayer was taking part in a debate with 800 young people. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES