Jacob Rees-Mogg
The Guardian
What holds, and what fails, under pressure, standards and accountability.
Jacob Rees-Mogg is a prominent British politician known for his traditionalist views and strong adherence to constitutional norms. This interview reveals his leadership style as one that seeks to protect and stabilize the political landscape amidst ongoing crises.
“Yes, he wrote to me, but Jess is a model politician in my view. She is so deeply concerned for her constituents, she does everything she can. This may be indiscreet of me to tell you this, but she was hovering outside the government lobby in a vote a few weeks ago, to collar the home secretary to get something done for one of her constitu…”
“I think it would be very difficult if it were reversed. I think it's right to say, you may know the precise number, that 3 million people who don't normally vote voted in the referendum, if you were to say to them, well, you were right not normally to vote because we're not going to take any notice of you anyway.”
“Certainly we were a political household and that my father knew a lot of politicians and political journalists who were visitors to the house, so as a child I remember meeting people like Robin Day and Bernard Levin in the journalistic sphere but also I met Ted Heath when I was about three just under when he was Prime Minister and so yes…”
“Well, I don't think drones principled. I think he made his whole career out of not being principled, and why he was such an unsuccessful Prime Minister. I make very few comments of this kind, but John Major crops up every so often pretending to be statesmanlike, trying to lob hand grenades into the government.”
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