Emmanuel Macron faces a testing week as reports that even his wife Brigitte finds him arrogant add to damaging revelations in a new biography of her confidante and he struggles to keep his government on track.

Mr Macron is struggling to reshuffle his government after the resignations of two high-profile ministers, one of whom complained on television that his presidency “lacked humility”.

He suffered further damage to his reputation with reports on Sunday that his wife is also fed up with his “high-handed” manner.

Brigitte Macron has urged the president’s entourage to speak truth to power, complaining that she is one of a very few people who dares tell him when he is being overbearing, according to Le Parisien newspaper. He is “too arrogant, too snappy,” she has reportedly told members of her inner circle.

Mrs Macron has also vowed revenge on the person who spread rumours that her husband was in a gay relationship, according to a new book.

Her remarks appear in an unauthorised biography of Michèle ‘Mimi” Marchand, a public relations advisor to the Macrons and the owner of a celebrity photo agency, Bestimage.