One cut her political teeth on the streets of Rome as a teenage neo-fascist activist, rising to become Italy’s first female premier. The other is a former investment banker who became Britain’s wealthiest prime minister, and its first of colour.
Yet whatever their very different backgrounds, the ties between Giorgia Meloni and Rishi Sunak are likely to have grown even closer last weekend when he attended the right wing Atreju summit in Rome organised by her hardline
