Never miss a moment Stay ahead with live news updates in our award-winning app Enjoy four months’ free access to The Telegraph. Cancel at any time. | | Charlie Kirk pictured moments before being shot at an event at Utah Valley University | Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old de facto leader of the Maga youth movement, was assassinated on stage yesterday in front of 3,000 people as he discussed mass shootings committed by trans people.
The gunman is being hunted by the FBI.
In a statement from the Oval Office, Mr Trump said he was “filled with grief and anger” as he blamed the “radical Left” for the assassination.
The president said Kirk was a “patriot who devoted his life to the cause of open debate... fought for liberty, democracy, justice and the American people... He’s a martyr for truth and freedom.”
 | Rob Crilly Chief US Correspondent | Charlie Kirk was a pugilistic, polarising figure, hated by the liberal Left and idolised by an army of conservative student activists.
His assassination last night has shocked the American Right.
Kirk’s deep influence on politics was evident in the way his death was announced … by president Donald Trump himself.
The father-of-two died doing what had turned his political movement into a fundraising juggernaut, taking his message on to the front lines of America’s culture war: a college campus. | The moment police officers bundle his body into a car | “Utah Valley University is FIRED UP and READY for the first stop back on the American Comeback Tour,” he posted shortly before taking up position beneath a provocatively branded awning emblazoned with “Prove me wrong”.
It was classic Kirk, an open invitation to debate his brand of Christian conservatism coupled with a confidence that he could outsmart all comers.
Anyone who had seen him in action – whether besting Britain’s brightest and best at Oxford and Cambridge this year or electrifying crowds at his Turning Point USA rallies – could not doubt his rapid wit.
In the flesh, he was courteous and personable, even while taking his scalpel to the premises of awkward journalists’ questions.
But he had a knack for the sort of confrontations that would go viral, juicing the growth of his youth movement.
Turning Point USA, founded by Kirk when he was just 18, claims more than 850 campus chapters.
And it used its sway during the 2024 election to register thousands of young voters for Mr Trump.
| Kirk pictured handing out Maga hats moments before he was shot | His reward was a place in the room at Mar-a-Lago, where the president-elect and his top team interviewed candidates for his new administration.
Insiders described a quiet, shocked atmosphere in the West Wing as staffers swapped updates on the news.
It was lost on no one that Mr Trump had only made it to the White House by avoiding his own assassin’s bullet.
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A single gunshot, then screams: How the shooting unfolded ➤ | | Prince Harry being driven away from Clarence House yesterday |  | Victoria Ward Deputy Royal Editor | It was the question on everyone’s lips this week: would the King see his son?
We knew Prince Harry wanted it, but did the King? It turns out he did.
Charles, who has no public engagements this week, has been at Balmoral. But there was always the chance that he would use his weekly visit to London for cancer treatment to take a tentative, but critical step, towards reconciliation with his errant son.
No stone was left unturned. Flights were tracked, photographers were placed on high alert in London and Scotland.
The first sign of a potential reunion came when the King was spotted boarding a plane in Aberdeen at about 2pm yesterday.
He arrived at Clarence House just before 4pm. The Duke – who flies back to California today – had a small window between engagements.
Then, there he was. A suited and booted Harry was whisked through the gates at 5.20pm.
It is hard to overestimate quite how much this will have meant to the Duke, who is keen to put the past few years behind him and change tack.
He has a new team that is determined to do things differently. Privately, those close to him insist that the days of emotionally charged interviews are behind him. It is still early days but perhaps, a corner has been turned.
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Continue reading ➤ | Franco-files Every weekday, Orlando Bird, our loyal Reader Correspondent, shares an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Orlando writes...
Recently, Britain and France have been engaging in a time-honoured pastime: accusing each other of being the more dysfunctional country. Which is further gone? The question remains moot, as I suspect it always will. Yet who among us hasn’t once entertained the idea of defection? In idle moments, when I’m sidestepping kebab boxes and waving exhaust fumes from my face on my walk home, I imagine acquiring a vast, cut-price vineyard somewhere across the Channel – then sternly remind myself that I’d run it straight into the ground, given that my winemaking skills are about as advanced as my conversational French.
Still, I was intrigued by the responses to Anthony Peregrine’s article, from Telegraph readers who have actually made the move. Peter Spencer “lived in France for a year in the 1950s and went to school as an 11-year-old. I can still remember the names of most of my classmates. I loved it and have always been quite fond of the French (I know I’m probably a rarity). It also stood me in good stead language-wise. Sadly my folks didn’t choose to live there permanently”.
Jeremy Weatherhead’s top tip was to “speak French; you’ll fit in straight away. I worked in France for a year in the sticks (south of Bordeaux), and it was a never-ending round of lunch and dinner invitations, village fetes and messing around at the football teams’ pub. Friendliest country in the world – along with Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece, of course”.
Jill Brown’s Gallic adventure has lasted a little longer: “I have lived in France for over 60 years, and found the French to be the warmest, most generous people. They certainly give very frank opinions on just about everything, so if you don’t want to be upset, don’t ask what they think about, say, a dish you’ve just served up or something you’ve done to your hair.
“My problem in France is being mistaken for a man (including by social security) because my name sounds like Gilles.” Would you move to France? Or perhaps you’re there already? You can let me know here, or head to our Your Say page, exclusively on the Telegraph app. | Plan your day with the telegraph | Set your alarm to catch up with journalists on the Your Say page and listen to their analysis on our latest podcasts.
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