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"[T]he Honourable Member for the 18th Century."
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Jacob Rees-Mogg"Ive done my bit by having six children, so now you do yours."
Sir Jacob William Rees-Mogg is a British politician, businessman and broadcaster who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Somerset from 2010 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council from 2019 to 2022, Minister of State for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency from February to September 202
"[T]he Honourable Member for the 18th Century."
"Basically I want people to be able to get on with their lives without the government bossing them about. I’m all in favour of nannies but not the nanny state."
"I think it is a real scandal that UNICEF should be playing politics in this way when it is meant to be looking after people in the poorest, the most deprived, countries of the world where people are starving, where there are famines and where there are civil wars. And they make cheap political points of this kind, giving, I think, £25,000 to one council. It is a political stunt of the lowest order."
"[T]he privileges committee is not even a proper legal set up. It has a gossamer of constitutional propriety thrown over it, but it is in fact a political committee against Boris Johnson."
"And instead of this endless carping, saying its difficult to get them, we should actually celebrate this phenomenal success of the British nation in getting up to a quarter of a million tests of a disease that nobody knew about until earlier in the year."
"I think youre being very rude to marsupials ... I think it makes kangaroo courts look respectable [On The World at One (BBC Radio 4)]"