The mayoral candidate for Milan, the ‘Italian Mamdani’, speaks out: “Security is one of the city’s problems and it is getting worse as inequalities worsen. We need educators – both men and women – in troubled neighbourhoods who are paid properly, drawing on revenue from the tax on the wealthy as well.” And on the No Tav protests: “No comment.”

The councillor for Milan’s First Municipality is campaigning in the suburbs, watermelons in hand, to “develop the programme in a participatory manner”. And what about maximalist ideas in foreign policy? “The mad arms race at the expense of welfare is the greatest harm that can be done to citizens”

Onorato and Alfonsi are in Rome, but Pacini is the most popular figure with his "Milanese revolution". Young Mamdanis are growing up amidst potholes, flowerbeds and bocce courts