Salvini warns on Italy power

Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini has told his party he wants to keep its fractious coalition government going, but is ready to see it collapse if he cannot push through his flat tax plans and other priority measures.

Two people present at a closed-door meeting in Rome said that Mr Salvini told lawmakers from the rightist League that his alliance with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement could last another four years or it could be over within three months.