In recent months Jacob Rees-Mogg has kept a low profile in Westminster. The leader of the House is kept mainly these days to the confines of managing parliamentary business with the mile-long ‘Mogg conga’ queuing system last June being one of the few occasions he has returned to the limelight.
So Mr S was delighted to see the Old Etonian demonstrate he has lost none of his wit or wisdom when he came to the Commons today to field questions from backbenchers. A question by Ipswich Tom Hunt MP decrying the ‘wokeification’ of British universities offered Rees-Mogg the chance to offer his thoughts on Churchill college Cambridge potentially rebranding, 150 Oxford academics refusing to teach until Oriel’s statue of Cecil Rhodes is removed and Magdalen college removing a portrait of the Queen.
Rees-Mogg told the House:
As for Magdalen college, it’s not exactly 1687, 1688, it’s a few pimply adolescents getting excited and taking down a picture of Her Majesty.
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