It might seem like an unlikely alliance, when you first see the headlines: the so-called centrist Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak, cosying up with the right-wing leader of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, who was once branded by a German magazine “the most dangerous woman in Europe”.
But maybe it isn’t. Sunak announced his union with Meloni — leader of the country’s Brothers of Italy party since 2014 and Italy’s first ever female PM — last night, urging their European counterparts to show the “same sense of urgency” as Britain and Italy on tackling illegal migration — fitting timing, after his party’s controversially hardline stance on immigration at the Tory conference this week.
