No palace for the first woman PM

Italy’s first woman leader Giorgia Meloni will not live in Rome’s opulent prime minister’s residence because it is no place to bring up her daughter, her partner has said.

Meloni, 45, has chosen to stay in her house in Mostacciano, a suburb of Rome, and will not relocate to the 16th Century Palazzo Chigi in the heart of the city.

Dismissing any idea of a move, her partner Andrea Giambruno, 41, said: “Do you think we’d raise a six-year-old child in a Versailleslike palazzo?”

Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party steered a right-wing coalition to a comfortable victory in Italy’s general election last Sunday, and she is now in talks with coalition partners to name a cabinet for when they takes office in October.