Jacob on fine form (video, 8:51). He covers the issue of Starmer’s relationships with Rachel Reeves – accurately dismissing her charges of misogyny as cover for charges of incompetence – and Angela Rayner, as well as Jeremy Corbyn, fleetingly. Who other than JR-M could end a video by tucking into his first mince pie of the season, baked by “nanny”?

A random extract from his Wikipedia page:

“At age nine he made his first will and testament, and at thirteen he opened a Coutts bank account.” 

I was pleased to see Wiki covers a famous anecdote relating to his first bid to become an MP:

“Rees-Mogg first entered politics at the 1997 general election at which, aged 27, he was selected as the Conservative Party candidate for Central Fife, a traditional Labour seat in Scotland. With an upper-class background on his father’s side set against a predominantly working-class electorate, and having been described as being “so posh, it’s as if he has been transported in time from a previous century”,^[55] he caused some bewilderment among locals by canvassing the area with his family’s nanny and touring the constituency in a Bentley, a claim that he later described as “scurrilous”, stating it had been a Mercedes.”

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