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ITALY PERSPECTIVE
REFORM UK SURGES, LABOUR COLLAPSES: UK LOCAL ELECTIONS SIGNAL THE END OF THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM
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DOMINANT ANGLE
Italy: Farage soars, Starmer resists — Rome sees in the British vote an echo of its own political history
Dominant angle identified — does not reflect unanimity of this country’s media
ANALYSIS
Italy: ANSA headlines 'Il voto affossa i laburisti e fa volare Farage, ma Starmer prova a resistere' — the vote crushes Labour and sends Farage soaring, while Starmer tries to hold on. Italy, which itself experienced the lightning rise of a populist right-wing party — Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia, from the margins to the Presidency of the Council — is particularly well placed to analyse this dynamic. The Italian press notes with interest that Reform UK, like FdI before it, was considered a marginal phenomenon before becoming unavoidable. Rome also looks at the European implications: a UK under Farage's influence would be even harder to draw back into a cooperative European dynamic than Starmer had imagined.
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