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"Sardinia, like it or not, will not accept to passively suffer decisions made from above," President Alessandra Todde declared, in a salvo clearly directed at right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

"Sardinia, like it or not, will not accept to passively suffer decisions made from above," Todde declared, in a salvo clearly directed at Meloni.

And I think in women’s basketball, we can say, ‘Yeah, but it’s OK to put it off. It’s OK to not accept that that’s where we go.’

He previously said he would aim to hold his Westminster seat until the next general election, due in 2029, but would not accept two salaries.

To the surprise of many of his supporters, he accepted a peerage in 2010 despite reportedly having once said: "I don't want to be a member of the House of Lords. I will not accept it."