From the political shadows to the spotlight. Giorgia Meloni stormed to success in Italy’s general election and is now set to become the country’s first female prime minister. Since her victory on 25 September, Meloni-mania is fast taking over the country and is spreading beyond its borders as her supporters and critics applaud and attack, in equal measures, the rise of her far-right Brothers of Italy party. Her place in the history books is assured if, as expected, she becomes Italy’s first female prime minister, and the country’s first far-right leader since wartime fascist Benito Mussolini. …