It is easy to underestimate Élisabeth Borne, the newly appointed French prime minister. Labour unions did a few years ago when they faced off against her over a fraught move to open up the railways to competition.
Decrying the veteran civil servant, then transport minister, as too rigid, they demanded to speak directly to the prime minister Édouard Philippe. She acquiesced, did not blink during their month-long strike, and got the reform done anyway.
Four years on, the discreet 61-year-old is now in the top job herself, having risen from relatively humble beginnings as the daughter of a fighter in the Resistance to pilot President Emmanuel Macron’s second-term domestic agenda.
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