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Jacob Rees-Mogg: I was wrong to say Brexit would not cause Dover delays
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Jacob Rees-Mogg has admitted he was wrong to say there would be no delays at the port of Dover caused by the UK leaving the EU. But the Brexit opportunities minister maintained the government line that the French, not...
Has Jacob Rees-Mogg done his homework on civil servants working from home?
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A recent vacancy advertised on the civil service jobs website states: “The Government is committed to increasing the number of Civil Service roles throughout the UK under its Places for Growth programme and this will ...
The Andrew Neil Show review – back to his best with curry, porn and Jacob Rees-Mogg
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Eleven months of Sundays have passed since a visibly uncomfortable Andrew Neil launched GB News, fighting sound and lighting issues at the new anti-woke network from which he soon resigned as lead presenter. Now, Neil...
Note for Rees-Mogg: office attendance is no guarantee of efficiency
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It is somewhat rich of Jacob Rees-Mogg to criticise civil servants for not attending the office (Civil service head warns PM against forcing Whitehall workers back to office, 25 April) when it was the Tory government ...
UK sea ports to press for compensation after Rees-Mogg delays Brexit controls
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Some of Britain’s biggest sea ports are considering legal action against the government to recover the costs of building border control posts they fear will never be used, after confirmation that post-Brexit import ch...
‘Condescending’: Jacob Rees-Mogg leaves notes for WFH civil servants
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Jacob Rees-Mogg has been called “condescending” after leaving notes deemed to be passive-aggressive on civil servants’ desks in an effort to stop them working from home. As part of his campaign to push workers back in...
Is Jacob Rees-Mogg really a better Christian than the archbishop of Canterbury?
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“Christ is risen, Alleluia. He is risen indeed, Alleluia, Alleluia.” Thus spake Jacob Rees-Mogg on Easter Sunday, on Twitter. (How does the guy manage to sound posh quoting something that surely sprang forth before po...
The Guardian view on Jacob Rees-Mogg: opportunities to do damage
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If Boris Johnson’s recent reshuffle had an overarching purpose it was to show Conservative MPs that a beleaguered prime minister was listening to them. This is the perspective in which the most eye-catching ministeria...
Rees-Mogg becomes minister for Brexit opportunities in Boris Johnson reshuffle
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Boris Johnson has made Jacob Rees-Mogg the new minister for “Brexit opportunities” and installed a key loyalist as his chief whip in a reshuffle intended to shore up his position following weeks of terrible headlines....
Downing Street rules out delaying April tax rise despite Rees-Mogg intervention
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Downing Street has ruled out delaying a tax rise this April despite increasing concern among Tory MPs and cabinet ministers over the toll on voters of the cost of living. However, the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, said on ...
Jacob Rees-Mogg cleared of wrongdoing over £6m in cheap loans
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The parliamentary commissioner for standards has cleared Jacob Rees-Mogg of any wrongdoing in failing to declare he received £6m in cheap loans from one of his companies, concluding that they could not be seen as havi...
Jacob Rees-Mogg faces Commons inquiry over undeclared £6m loans
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The parliamentary commissioner for standards has begun a formal investigation into Jacob Rees-Mogg after a complaint from Labour that he failed to declare that he received £6m in cheap loans from one of his companies....
Jacob Rees-Mogg questions fairness of Owen Paterson suspension vote
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Jacob Rees-Mogg has questioned the fairness of the Conservative MP Owen Paterson facing a six-week suspension from parliament and possible byelection, after he was found to have committed an “egregious” breach of lobb...
Rees-Mogg leaps to defence of ‘successful genius’ Matt Hancock
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Jacob Rees-Mogg has leapt to the defence of Matt Hancock, telling MPs the health secretary is a “successful genius”. Hancock came under a fresh onslaught from Boris Johnson’s former adviser Dominic Cummings on Wednesd...
Rees-Mogg under fire after calling journalist ‘either a knave or a fool’
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Jacob Rees-Mogg has accused a journalist of being “either a knave or a fool” over a story about the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, the second time in recent weeks that ministers have targeted individual reporters wi...