Former Margaret Thatcher adviser Nile Gardiner says woke, liberal elites carry a “big part” of responsibility for the string of riots throughout France. “They have advanced really an anti-Western, woke ideology, and you’re seeing the product of that actually in the French school system, where you have vast numbers of young, thuggish children who hate France,” Mr Gardiner told News24 host Samara Gill. “This is the result … of left-wing elites ruling over Europe for the last few decades.”