JM News UK

The 86-year-old founder of France's National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen, was under observation in hospital on Thursday after an operation, in the midst of a feud with his daughter Marine, now leader of the far-right party. Marine Le Pen said her father was doing fine and a party disciplinary procedure against him over controversial comments about World War Two would carry on. He had a benign operation and there is no reason to worry," she told Reuters at the party headquarters. Marine and her father have been at odds since last week, when he defended the French wartime leader, Philippe Petain, who cooperated with Nazi Germany, and his own past comment that Nazi gas chambers were "a detail of history".