Tag: Jacob Rees-Mogg

The Tory leader of the House of Commons has given an extraordinary response after being asked if there can be a debate and a report on the regional impact of Brexit.

The prime minister's former spokesperson has resigned after being caught on video laughing and joking about a rule-breaking party - surely the leader of the House should resign too?

"After all the sacrifices the people of this country have made, they’re laughing at us. Pretty unforgivable."

The Commons leader is being investigated over a series of loans totalling £6 million between 2018 and 2020.

"I don't have any other way of putting it."

The Leader of the House admitted that in hindsight, the move to save Owen Paterson had been a "really obvious mistake to have made".

“Of course, I think things could certainly have been handled better, let me put it that way, by me," the prime minister has said.

It comes after Rees-Mogg led the government’s recent attempts to rip up the Commons’ standards rules to protect former Tory MP Owen Paterson from a lobbying row.

Rees-Mogg suggested Emmanuel Macron was suffering from "late Octoberitis" amid a fishing row with France.