WATCH: Rees-Mogg brands Labour a ‘party of people traffickers’
He attacks the Opposition for criticising the Government’s toughness whilst opposing every measure it introduces.
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The Moggcast: Episode Sixty Two, Tuesday 13th July 2021
“I will not be wearing a mask. What would be the point?”
The Leader of the House on why he won’t usually wear a face covering after July 19th.
With so much to get done, Johnson shouldn’t sideline the Downing Street legislation team
Policy drift following the collapse of the Union Unit shows the danger of Downing Street losing its grip on a process.
Buckland’s stealth raid on judicial power gathers pace
And we’re all for a rebalancing – but Parliamentary government must mean Parliament in full, not just the executive.
The Moggcast: Episode Sixty One, Tuesday 29th June 2021
“I think one of the Prime Minister’s many attractive qualities is loyalty to people who work for him.” Rees-Mogg also suggests that it may have been required for Hancock’s relationship with Gina Coladangelo to be declared.
The Moggcast: Episode Sixty, Tuesday 15th June 2021
Taking a knee “has become problematic”. And “I don’t think there’s evidence” that fans who boo are racist.
Rees-Mogg says that Merton’s dons “may be rather second rate” and that “you can’t run society just to stop the hospitals being full”.
The Moggcast: Episode Fifty Nine, Tuesday 18th May 2021
“It was absolutely essential that democracy was viewed as being as important to the running of the country as having the NHS working.”
The Leader of the House on how the House of Commons has scrutinised the Government during the pandemic.
The Moggcast: Episode Fifty Eight, Tuesday 20th April 2021
Greensill – “I’m still surprised the Government thought it would be cheaper to use the private sector”
The Leader of the House on Cameron, Heywood, the civil service, lobbying and (briefly) on a football superleague.
Matt Kilcoyne: Streamlined lawmaking would make the UK a richer, safer, fairer and better place to work and live
The Adam Smith Institute’s new report, Ignorantia Legis, shows the Government how it could stem the bloat of process-focused legislation.
Forget Nish Kumar. Non-woke artists are the real casualties of our culture war.
I got one message from a Brexiteer artist telling me “it would be career suicide for me to be public about my opinions”.
One, two, three – and now Truss tops our Cabinet League Table for the fourth time
And Williamson’s negative rating halves in the wake of his intervention in the Batley Mohammed cartoons row.
The Moggcast: Episode Fifty Seven, Tuesday 23rd March 2021
If we applied ECHR standards to countries we trade with, “we might not be able to trade with ourselves”. Rees-Mogg on his row with the Huffington Post, why the hybrid Commons should end – and how the quality of speeches “has been reduced”.
How Zoom has accelerated the decline of the Commons – and how the damage can be reversed
Parliamentary ‘debates’ often devolve into collections of short, unconnected speeches that are basically being read into Hansard. That must change.
The Moggcast: Episode Fifty Six, Tuesday 9th March 2021
And on that interview, he says that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s title “is there, and it would require legislation to take it away”.
The Moggcast: Episode Fifty Five, Tuesday 23rd February 2021
The Leader of the House as next week’s Budget looms. And: he confirms that there will be a vote on the roadmap. Plus: on nightclub openings: “it may make more difference to your life than mine.”