The French presidential candidate said she had no intention of taking France out of the EU but applauded the UK for freeing itself from the “Brussels strait-jacket”.
She added: “The British got rid of the Brussels bureaucracy, which they could never bear, to move to an ambitious concept of global Britain.”
France currently gives around £20billion to the EU budget, but Le Pen said she wants to “diminish it”.
Le Pen will face Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the presidential election next week.
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