Italian coalition faces collapse as Five Star sits out confidence vote

Mario Draghi's government survives vote but he had said he would not continue without movement's support

Italy's coalition government is teetering on the brink of collapse after the Five Star Movement refused to participate in a confidence vote, raising the spectre of a snap general election.

Five Star, headed by the former prime minister Giuseppe Conte, is a formerly anti-establishment party that has plummeted in the polls and lost parliamentarians since joining the government, hurt by policy U-turns and internal divisions.