Up to 31 per cent of French people think Mrs Le Pen would help make France a 'safer place'

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The shock poll found 35 per cent are worried the migration crisis would tear the country apart.

And nearly one in three French people (31 per cent) think Mrs Le Pen’s hardline stance on radical Islam would help make France a “safer place” and put an end to the war on terror.

The EU refugee crisis was a particularly thorny issue among far-right sympathisers: 72 per cent of those questioned said immigration was France’s biggest problem, and not terrorism.