It's difficult to escape discussing politics over pizza in Pisa

While on a recent visit to Tuscany, John Duggan found locals discussing Brexit over the pizza oven.

My wife is standing at the counter of the Nando restaurant on Corso Italia in the centre of Pisa. It is a local institution where people drop in for pizza al taglio or for cecina (a sort of pancake made with chickpea flour). In her fluent Italian, she is talking about Brexit with the staff, who had raised the subject pretty quickly once they had realized that she is half-English.

One of them thinks it will make people in other European countries sit up and think a bit harder about the European Union and what exactly membership means for them. Another says she likes the look of Theresa May: sensible, a safe pair of hands. And so the Member of Parliament for Maidenhead, who a few a short weeks ago would surely have meant very little to the people of Pisa, is now a talking point around the pizza oven.