Left and far-right parties unite to topple the government after the PM pushed through a budget without parliamentary support.

France's far-right and left-wing lawmakers joined together Wednesday in a historic no-confidence vote prompted by budget disputes that forces French Prime Minister Michel Barnier and his Cabinet members to resign,

French lawmakers are to hold a vote of no confidence on Wednesday to decide on the future of the centre-right minority government led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier. From 4 pm (1500 GMT), two motions are to be debated and voted on in the National Assembly - France's lower house - submitted by the left-wing camp and the far-right nationalists around Marine Le Pen.