Rees-Mogg does his bit for the Union

You know it’s bad when Rees-Mogg does the media round. Ever since his disastrous interview on Grenfell in the 2019 election, Tory party managers have been keen to keep the Old Etonian’s performances on national television to a minimum. But given both the dire straits in which Boris now finds himself and the half-hearted backing of his cabinet, it was cometh the hour, cometh the Mogg. And the leader of the Commons certainly brought the House down. 

First Mogg went on LBC to dismiss those calling for Johnson to quit, claiming ‘The people who have come out so far are people like Roger Gale and Douglas Ross who never supported the Prime Minister. Mainly they didn’t support him over Brexit — it’s been a key dividing line — and you wouldn’t expect them to support him now.’ This conveniently ignores both those critics like Will Wragg, a staunch Brexiteer who campaigned for Leave, and the fact that every single Tory MP, including Gale and Ross, voted for Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal.