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Bayrou says young people will be saddled with years of debt payments "for the sake of the comfort of boomers", if France fails to tackle a national debt of 114% of its annual economic output.

He wrote: "Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails punch him in the balls."

But the authors of the rebuttal say the report misrepresents evidence, relies on discredited research and fails to follow the peer review process typically expected of rigorous scientific assessments, among other concerns.

Of course, in the corporate world, anything is only a mistake if it fails massively; even then, provided everyone survives, it’s treated as a lesson from which one is free to draw the wrong conclusions.

According to Mrs Butcher, one thing that still never fails to amaze her is how each wedding is unique - some more so than others.