Britain and Italy are now the terrible twins of Europe | Martin Kettle
by Martin Kettle from on (#4NNRT)
Poles apart for decades, the similarities are now uncanny as populist governments produce ever more extreme policies
For most of the time since 1945, the politics and government of Britain and Italy have seemed like polar opposites. True, both were important European powers. True too, each had a place among the world's major economies. Even now, Britain and Italy will be among the select group of economically powerful nations whose leaders will gather in the Second Empire splendour of Biarritz's Hotel du Palais this weekend for the latest G7 summit.
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