Leggings and trainers on the campaign trail. On-stage selfie videos broadcast to her 1.1 million Instagram followers. Speeches on how she was raised by a single mother in a gritty, left-leaning district of Rome. It hardly paints a picture of your classic far-right politician, and certainly not one being branded “the most dangerous woman in Europe” if she gets elected to replace Mario Draghi this week. But this is exactly the surprising superpower of Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, leader of the country’s Brothers of Italy party since 2014 and the woman on course to become Italy’s first female Prime Minister this...