IT is the most sensational, and perhaps the most significant, development in Italian politics since the fall of Silvio Berlusconi’s government last November: this afternoon Umberto Bossi resigned as leader of the Northern League, the ostensibly separatist movement he founded 21 years earlier.
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Umberto Bossi’s Northern League at centre of Italian corruption allegations
Silvio Berlusconi defends former ally after prosecutors claim taxpayers’ money used for improvements to party leader’s home.