Professor Daniele Albertazzi
@dralbertazziuk.bsky.social
Professor of Politics, Research Community Lead (School of Social Sciences) @UniOfSurrey. #populism, #EuropeanPolitics, #partyorganisation. Posts=my views.
Pinned
Our brand new monograph, discussing the findings of our work together during the last seven years, is now out for @oxfordacademic.bsky.social and free to read and download!
Finishing this book wasn't exactly easy, but it's out there now and I can hardly believe it...
Anyone and everyone can read it and download it, as it is Open Access.
We are happy to come to your institution and present the findings in the Autumn, just drop us a line!
Anyone and everyone can read it and download it, as it is Open Access.
We are happy to come to your institution and present the findings in the Autumn, just drop us a line!
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
Starmer finding that place in a Venn Diagram where he manages to annoy allies without defeating enemies
Keir Starmer attacks the racism of Reform and Matt Goodwin but then adds that "Britain has also been let down by a mindset on the left of politics that is too slow to defend core British values"
February 5, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Starmer finding that place in a Venn Diagram where he manages to annoy allies without defeating enemies
Quite the achievement that biblio...
a man in a suit and tie says good job in front of a crowd of people
ALT: a man in a suit and tie says good job in front of a crowd of people
media.tenor.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Quite the achievement that biblio...
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
[email protected] (Financial Times) on General Vannacci leaving Salvini's League yesterday. Includes comments by yours truly and other commentators about the damage this development will inflict on Salvini's credibility and authority within the party.
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
Far-right hardliner poses challenge to Italy’s Matteo Salvini
[FREE TO READ] Retired army general Roberto Vannacci splits from the League to form his own National Future party
as.ft.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:06 AM
[email protected] (Financial Times) on General Vannacci leaving Salvini's League yesterday. Includes comments by yours truly and other commentators about the damage this development will inflict on Salvini's credibility and authority within the party.
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
Our principal investigator, @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social, spoke to the Financial Times about the troubles affecting the League in Italy.
The link below should still be non-paywalled, hopefully.
The link below should still be non-paywalled, hopefully.
[email protected] (Financial Times) on General Vannacci leaving Salvini's League yesterday. Includes comments by yours truly and other commentators about the damage this development will inflict on Salvini's credibility and authority within the party.
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
Far-right hardliner poses challenge to Italy’s Matteo Salvini
[FREE TO READ] Retired army general Roberto Vannacci splits from the League to form his own National Future party
as.ft.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Our principal investigator, @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social, spoke to the Financial Times about the troubles affecting the League in Italy.
The link below should still be non-paywalled, hopefully.
The link below should still be non-paywalled, hopefully.
[email protected] (Financial Times) on General Vannacci leaving Salvini's League yesterday. Includes comments by yours truly and other commentators about the damage this development will inflict on Salvini's credibility and authority within the party.
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
Far-right hardliner poses challenge to Italy’s Matteo Salvini
[FREE TO READ] Retired army general Roberto Vannacci splits from the League to form his own National Future party
as.ft.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:06 AM
[email protected] (Financial Times) on General Vannacci leaving Salvini's League yesterday. Includes comments by yours truly and other commentators about the damage this development will inflict on Salvini's credibility and authority within the party.
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
as.ft.com/r/a2f5163d-3...
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
I very much doubt this a "widening rift", as l do not expect more than 3 or 4 MPs to follow Vannacci. Leaving an organised political machine to join a personal party led by someone who has no experience of life in the institutions, campaigning etc & has just performed poorly in regional elections...
Italian MEP Roberto Vannacci today formally broke with Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini’s far-right League party, capping weeks of internal turmoil and exposing a widening rift on Italy’s right.
Italy’s far-right League party splits as Salvini’s deputy quits
Roberto Vannacci has launched a new far-right party that’s “not moderate.”
www.politico.eu
February 3, 2026 at 7:36 PM
I very much doubt this a "widening rift", as l do not expect more than 3 or 4 MPs to follow Vannacci. Leaving an organised political machine to join a personal party led by someone who has no experience of life in the institutions, campaigning etc & has just performed poorly in regional elections...
... turn a page and end the Salvini era? Certainly yes, but l do not expect this to happen in the short term.
Salvini has placed his people in all key positions within the party and there's no sign that the League will hold a leadership contest anytime soon.
Salvini has placed his people in all key positions within the party and there's no sign that the League will hold a leadership contest anytime soon.
February 3, 2026 at 8:07 PM
... turn a page and end the Salvini era? Certainly yes, but l do not expect this to happen in the short term.
Salvini has placed his people in all key positions within the party and there's no sign that the League will hold a leadership contest anytime soon.
Salvini has placed his people in all key positions within the party and there's no sign that the League will hold a leadership contest anytime soon.
That he is now going off to do his own thing thanks to his own me-me-me personal vehicle was always inevitable & surprises nobody. Will he do well? I very much doubt it, his political niche is very crowded right now. Is he providing further proof that we are well past the time for the League to...
February 3, 2026 at 8:03 PM
That he is now going off to do his own thing thanks to his own me-me-me personal vehicle was always inevitable & surprises nobody. Will he do well? I very much doubt it, his political niche is very crowded right now. Is he providing further proof that we are well past the time for the League to...
Vannacci started clashing with the old guard from day one, and tried to shape the ideological development of the party from day one, pushing it even further to the right.
February 3, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Vannacci started clashing with the old guard from day one, and tried to shape the ideological development of the party from day one, pushing it even further to the right.
This goes to the very heart of the party's identity, as it emerges clearly in interviews with the grassroots. Even just becoming a "full member" (as opposed to a mere sympathiser) takes time, & has to be earned via activism & participation.
February 3, 2026 at 7:58 PM
This goes to the very heart of the party's identity, as it emerges clearly in interviews with the grassroots. Even just becoming a "full member" (as opposed to a mere sympathiser) takes time, & has to be earned via activism & participation.
This is exactly the OPPOSITE of logic that League activists & reps are used to, going back to the 1980s & 90s. Since the days of its creation by Bossi, the party values dedication & commitment & requires a cursus honorum whereby people prove their loyalty to the party first, & then start going up.
February 3, 2026 at 7:54 PM
This is exactly the OPPOSITE of logic that League activists & reps are used to, going back to the 1980s & 90s. Since the days of its creation by Bossi, the party values dedication & commitment & requires a cursus honorum whereby people prove their loyalty to the party first, & then start going up.
Salvini tried to slow down the party's decline not by devising new proposals/new strategy, but rather by "buying" Vannacci's visibility in the media in exchange for a top place in EU electoral list + job of deputy leader. This given to someone who had had no link with party until day before.
February 3, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Salvini tried to slow down the party's decline not by devising new proposals/new strategy, but rather by "buying" Vannacci's visibility in the media in exchange for a top place in EU electoral list + job of deputy leader. This given to someone who had had no link with party until day before.
... may not be such an attractive proposition.
The damage to Salvini is not caused much by the votes he'll bleed to Vannacci (l bet few) but the fact that we have further proof, if ever was needed, of Salvini's poor poor judgement.
The damage to Salvini is not caused much by the votes he'll bleed to Vannacci (l bet few) but the fact that we have further proof, if ever was needed, of Salvini's poor poor judgement.
February 3, 2026 at 7:39 PM
... may not be such an attractive proposition.
The damage to Salvini is not caused much by the votes he'll bleed to Vannacci (l bet few) but the fact that we have further proof, if ever was needed, of Salvini's poor poor judgement.
The damage to Salvini is not caused much by the votes he'll bleed to Vannacci (l bet few) but the fact that we have further proof, if ever was needed, of Salvini's poor poor judgement.
I very much doubt this a "widening rift", as l do not expect more than 3 or 4 MPs to follow Vannacci. Leaving an organised political machine to join a personal party led by someone who has no experience of life in the institutions, campaigning etc & has just performed poorly in regional elections...
Italian MEP Roberto Vannacci today formally broke with Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini’s far-right League party, capping weeks of internal turmoil and exposing a widening rift on Italy’s right.
Italy’s far-right League party splits as Salvini’s deputy quits
Roberto Vannacci has launched a new far-right party that’s “not moderate.”
www.politico.eu
February 3, 2026 at 7:36 PM
I very much doubt this a "widening rift", as l do not expect more than 3 or 4 MPs to follow Vannacci. Leaving an organised political machine to join a personal party led by someone who has no experience of life in the institutions, campaigning etc & has just performed poorly in regional elections...
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
And here we go: Salvini will tell League's Federal Council meeting today that Vannacci is leaving for good.
Creating one more party competing for radical right support in such a crowded environment has everything to do with personal ambition & very little with ideology & policies of course...
Creating one more party competing for radical right support in such a crowded environment has everything to do with personal ambition & very little with ideology & policies of course...
Vannacci has now registered a logo that will most likely function as the party's new symbol.
Those wishing to understand Italian politics may find re-reading this good article on Roberto Vannacci (League's deputy leader) worth their time, as Vannacci is most probably on the verge of leaving the party:
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
February 3, 2026 at 2:10 PM
And here we go: Salvini will tell League's Federal Council meeting today that Vannacci is leaving for good.
Creating one more party competing for radical right support in such a crowded environment has everything to do with personal ambition & very little with ideology & policies of course...
Creating one more party competing for radical right support in such a crowded environment has everything to do with personal ambition & very little with ideology & policies of course...
And here we go: Salvini will tell League's Federal Council meeting today that Vannacci is leaving for good.
Creating one more party competing for radical right support in such a crowded environment has everything to do with personal ambition & very little with ideology & policies of course...
Creating one more party competing for radical right support in such a crowded environment has everything to do with personal ambition & very little with ideology & policies of course...
Vannacci has now registered a logo that will most likely function as the party's new symbol.
Those wishing to understand Italian politics may find re-reading this good article on Roberto Vannacci (League's deputy leader) worth their time, as Vannacci is most probably on the verge of leaving the party:
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
February 3, 2026 at 2:10 PM
And here we go: Salvini will tell League's Federal Council meeting today that Vannacci is leaving for good.
Creating one more party competing for radical right support in such a crowded environment has everything to do with personal ambition & very little with ideology & policies of course...
Creating one more party competing for radical right support in such a crowded environment has everything to do with personal ambition & very little with ideology & policies of course...
The time for making the case is now, things have changed, it's an open goal...
February 1, 2026 at 11:21 PM
The time for making the case is now, things have changed, it's an open goal...
*in a parallel but very distant universe*, l should have said...
February 1, 2026 at 10:38 PM
*in a parallel but very distant universe*, l should have said...
Meanwhile, in a parallel universe, Labour has been relentlessly focused on the damage caused by Brexit, singling out Farage and Badenoch for good measure.
February 1, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Meanwhile, in a parallel universe, Labour has been relentlessly focused on the damage caused by Brexit, singling out Farage and Badenoch for good measure.
Gosh is he feeling alright? Those millions of Reform voters who are flocking back to Labour won't be impressed.
Keir Starmer has said Nigel Farage was wrong about Brexit and said the "botched deal" created by the previous government "has caused damage to our economy"
www.itv.com/news/2026-02...
www.itv.com/news/2026-02...
February 1, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Gosh is he feeling alright? Those millions of Reform voters who are flocking back to Labour won't be impressed.
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
[email protected] from the Financial Times on the gradual normalisation of ideas concerning "remigration" & how Meloni has tried to avoid the topic so far. With some of my comments for good measure:
www.ft.com/content/4eb1...
www.ft.com/content/4eb1...
Italian far-right activists push for ‘remigration’ law
[FREE TO READ] Extremist groups launch petition that would force parliament to debate law on mass deportations
www.ft.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:10 PM
[email protected] from the Financial Times on the gradual normalisation of ideas concerning "remigration" & how Meloni has tried to avoid the topic so far. With some of my comments for good measure:
www.ft.com/content/4eb1...
www.ft.com/content/4eb1...
[email protected] from the Financial Times on the gradual normalisation of ideas concerning "remigration" & how Meloni has tried to avoid the topic so far. With some of my comments for good measure:
www.ft.com/content/4eb1...
www.ft.com/content/4eb1...
Italian far-right activists push for ‘remigration’ law
[FREE TO READ] Extremist groups launch petition that would force parliament to debate law on mass deportations
www.ft.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:10 PM
[email protected] from the Financial Times on the gradual normalisation of ideas concerning "remigration" & how Meloni has tried to avoid the topic so far. With some of my comments for good measure:
www.ft.com/content/4eb1...
www.ft.com/content/4eb1...
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
"I am going to stick to my big idea of co-opting Farage's policies. If it ain't broken..."
There, l fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
There, l fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Centrist ideas no longer wanted in Conservative party, says Kemi Badenoch
Party leader tells MPs that one-nation Tories doubting her rightward direction ‘need to get out of the way’
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:21 PM
"I am going to stick to my big idea of co-opting Farage's policies. If it ain't broken..."
There, l fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
There, l fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
"I am going to stick to my big idea of co-opting Farage's policies. If it ain't broken..."
There, l fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
There, l fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Centrist ideas no longer wanted in Conservative party, says Kemi Badenoch
Party leader tells MPs that one-nation Tories doubting her rightward direction ‘need to get out of the way’
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:21 PM
"I am going to stick to my big idea of co-opting Farage's policies. If it ain't broken..."
There, l fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
There, l fixed it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Professor Daniele Albertazzi
On Holocaust Memorial Day, PM Giorgia Meloni has made the following statement:
"On this day, we once again condemn the Fascist regime's complicity in persecutions, roundups, and deportations. A dark page in Italian history, sealed by the ignominy of the racial laws of 1938".
"On this day, we once again condemn the Fascist regime's complicity in persecutions, roundups, and deportations. A dark page in Italian history, sealed by the ignominy of the racial laws of 1938".
January 27, 2026 at 9:39 PM
On Holocaust Memorial Day, PM Giorgia Meloni has made the following statement:
"On this day, we once again condemn the Fascist regime's complicity in persecutions, roundups, and deportations. A dark page in Italian history, sealed by the ignominy of the racial laws of 1938".
"On this day, we once again condemn the Fascist regime's complicity in persecutions, roundups, and deportations. A dark page in Italian history, sealed by the ignominy of the racial laws of 1938".