Prime Minister Michel Barnier is expected to resign after the National Assembly passed a vote of no-confidence on Wednesday, effectively collapsing the current government.

Michael Barnier has become the shortest-serving French prime minister in modern history as opposition parties have ousted his government in a historic no-confidence vote – which hands president Emmanuel Macron a fresh political crisis.

Michel Barnier, the prime minister of France, lost a historic no-confidence vote on Wednesday and is expected to resign.French lawmakers in the National Assembly approved the motion by 331 votes of the 574 available votes.