But in the 1970s and 1980s, when Giorgia Meloni was growing up here, it was both firmly working class and highly radicalised. Credit: Getty Images, digitally tinted For Meloni, though, the radical left held little attraction. Giorgia Meloni in July: “I owe everything to my mother.” Credit: Getty Images, digitally altered Where did Giorgia Meloni come from? Female ministers and undersecretaries of Silvio Berlusconi’s government in 2011, with youth minister Giorgia Meloni third from the right. Credit: Getty Images, digitally tintedAdvertisementHow did Meloni become prime minister?