The secretary invites Veltroni, but Fassino, Onorato and Ruffini are left out. Prodi is absent. The row over the purchase of the newspaper then erupts. Zampa: “It seems like a load of rubbish to me.”

Never before has a political career emerged from the world of podcasting. But we now live in the ‘republic of podcasts’. Ranucci has turned down ‘the podcast portfolio’.

According to a SWG poll for La7, Futuro Nazionale has reached 7.5 per cent, whilst Forza Italia has fallen to 7.1 per cent. FdI remains the country’s leading party (26.8 per cent), whilst the Lega has risen to 5.7 per cent. Among the opposition parties, the PD has risen to 20.7 per cent and AVS to 6.7 per cent. The M5S has fallen to 12.7 per cent.

According to the Foreign Secretary, the reason for extending the suspension of the agreement is to prevent terrorism and combat irregular immigration.

Following the disagreements over the party’s overly conservative programme, and the (veiled) accusations levelled at the ideologue Gasperini, here is the row between the “liberals” and Lavarini’s far-right faction: “The day will come when serious scholars will be able to speak freely about the Second World War and the great European national-popular revolution...”

On stage in Genoa tomorrow, preceded by Schlein and followed by Conte, to discuss transport and security, with the spectre of the primaries looming over the broad coalition.