Hollande 'does not like poor people' says former lover in tell-all book

The former companion of French president Francois Hollande writes in a book that the Socialist presents himself as someone who doesn’t like the rich, but in fact “doesn’t like the poor”.

The claim, in Valerie Trierweiler’s 320-page Thank You for this Moment, follows her recollection of a snide remark at a Christmas dinner with her modest family, according to daily Le Monde, one of two publications allowed to read a copy in advance of its publication tomorrow.