Rees-Mogg is “worried” by reports that working families will lose money. Plus: how should May pitch for Labour voters? And why he is “always on good behaviour.”
He raised his listeners’ spirits in a way that no other speaker at this tepid and uncertain conference has managed.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer dared to be dull as he set out the economic facts of life and stuck to the Chequers plan.
“I’m being ambitious for this country. That’s why I want us to get a really good free trade deal with the European Union which is what lies at the heart of the Chequers plan.”
Rees-Mogg on Javid’s approach to the post-Brexit immigration system. And he sees no way in which Parliament can block Brexit if the Government holds its nerve.
“Away from the melodrama of Salzburg…we need to hold our nerve and keep our cool,” the Brexit Secretary argues.
The search for supporters of the Prime Minister’s plan continues.
Plus: Sky’s Brexit bluster, Raab’s presentational skills. Who’s important on the Right? And: please don’t force me to go vegan.
A central theme of the author and former army officer is: “I can’t over-exaggerate how different London is to the rest of the country.”
Inside the ERG’s Brexit plans. Why Rees-Mogg doesn’t believe the hype about ‘Blue Wave’ entryism. Plus: how he spent his summer.
Anyone claiming the UK can negotiate meaningful free trade deals while locking itself into the EU rulebook is propagating a delusion.
Failing to take back control would be to ignore the largest democratic vote in British history. The consequences would be dire.
It might even make things worse to spend Party funds to simply repeat the same messages, so long after the summit.
We re-run the author’s series on what might be done for the UK to be Ready on Day One.
It would be a national humiliation for Britain to strike so one-sided a treaty with the world’s largest single market, let alone the shrinking EU.