The Moggcast: Might a Bill to enact a Brexit trade deal pass through Parliament in 24 hours?
Our subject on how much time a Bill would be given now, how much time it might get – and whether it could be effected retrospectively.
The Moggcast: Coming out of “an extraordinarily deep slump” is “not the time when you want to slap the economy down with higher taxes”
Plus: Our interviewee suggests that if a Brexit deal doesn’t come soon, MPs may have to sit on Christmas Day. Is he any good at singing?
The Moggcast: Cummings has a “willingness to shake things up and sometimes things get too shaken”
Our interviewee on the “disgraceful” treatment of Symonds and Johnson’s longstanding Euroscepticism.
The Moggcast: “Things are done much more publicly.” The Leader of the House on 1922 Committee chairmen, Tory leaders – and dissent.
Our interviewee on the lockdown, the NHS, free school meals – and Government assessments of the effects of policy on lives and livelihoods.
LISTEN: Our live Moggcast – “We owe it to our constituents to be there.” Rees-Mogg strongly opposes any new closure of Parliament.
The Leader of the House is quizzed by our Editor on the Coronavirus, Brexit, social care, Trump, CANZUK…and what he’d ask Churchill.
The Moggcast: “Nobody would possibly want us to implement certain clauses of the Treaty of Utrecht”
He implies that Covid Marshalls shouldn’t have police powers, and says Tory members are “more developed in their thinking” on housing than Tory MPs.
The Moggcast: Rees-Mogg on reversing Lansley’s NHS reforms – “the people who are held to account” should “make the decisions”
Our interviewee speaks to us about FDR’s new deal, the “extremely satisfactory” Withdrawal Agreement and his views on self-identification.
The Moggcast: “Sounds very like being at the casino” – Rees-Mogg is a stranger to Gove’s Monte Carlo method
Our interviewee on why David Frost is the “Henry Kissinger of our days”, Tory rebellions and how he thinks churches will cope with social distancing.
The Moggcast: “Clearly one of the things the police are meant to do is to protect property”
Our interviewee on “very clear-sighted Home Secretary” and why he was right to end virtual Parliament. Plus: What does he think about illegal raves?
The Moggcast: “Our relationship with China is currently very much in the hands of the Chinese”
He tells us about his views on Hong Kong, and how he balances his “absolute” loyalty to both the church and Government over re-openings for worship.
The Moggcast: The Commons Leader concedes that the Government’s “stay home” campaign may have been “too successful”
But “I don’t think that’s a great fault”. Also: our interviewee on why “Sir Keir, the nervous knight” and the Opposition “like having a hybrid parliament”.
The Moggcast. “If people hadn’t decided they wanted a lockdown, there wouldn’t have been one.”
Our interviewee on why Starmer “has made the Labour Party once again a moderate, centre-Left party.” Plus: does he think the UK should follow Sweden?
LISTEN: Blue Collar Conservatives’ first podcast. Is the age of the entrepreneur over?
The first of the group’s online conservations probes the implications of the Coronavirus for Britain’s business culture.
The Moggcast. “The EU as a structure looks rather irrelevant during this crisis”.
Plus: Why China’s relationship with the rest of the world could change “for the better or worse after this”.
The Moggcast. The Government must tackle the virus with “evidence rather than emotion”.
Jacob Rees-Mogg on the Government’s strategy – and how MPs over 70 can use the pairing system to stay away from Parliament.