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Sunak offers Italy’s ‘post-fascists’ the spirit of Thatcher
In a fawning speech to Giorgia Meloni that evoked the Iron Lady, Britain’s PM has indicated that immigration will be the hill the Tories die on, if only to shore up their dwindling core, writes NICK WRIGHT

A NEW deification of Margaret Thatcher is well under way.
 
Following on from Keir Starmer’s adoration of the woman who he claims renewed Britain’s entrepreneurial spirit, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has now compared Italy’s “post-fascist” Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to the Iron Lady.

Sunak chose the annual Atreju festival of Azioni Giovani, the youth organisation of Meloni’s governing Fratelli d’Italia party to laud Thatcher’s “radicalism on illegal immigration.”

It is often difficult to discern the core beliefs of the very rich when they take to electoral politics, if only because they have much to lose if the layers of mystification which obscure the connections between wealth and power — necessary adjuncts to bourgeois rule — are revealed.

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