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What Italy made of the result of the British general election (not much)

The bombshell result jostled for prominence with statistics about Italian penis enlargement operations

16 May 2015

9:00 AM

16 May 2015

9:00 AM

On election day I was in Puglia in the ‘heel’ of Italy, where interest in British politics could hardly be lower. One local news website that I consulted appeared to give higher priority to the fact that Italian penis-enlargement operations had increased by 20 per cent during the past year than to the electoral bombshell in Britain.

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