French MPs have voted to bring down the government in a major challenge to President Emmanuel Macron. The vote took place after Left and Right-wing opposition parties refused to back the Budget put forward by Michel Barnier,

A vote of no-confidence in French Prime Minister Michel Barnier is taking place at the National Assembly. If the motion is passed, the PM will be ousted and the government will collapse. Watch live scenes from parliament in the stream below.

Already struggling with flat growth and a large debt and deficit, the country faces a new period of instability without a functioning government or a budget.