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Jan 28 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
With No 10 at the heart of a storm, Jacob Rees-Mogg opens up to @CamillaTominey about family, politics and his enduring faith in the embattled Prime Minister.

Read the full interview 👇telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
"Jacob Rees-Mogg is so laid-back, he might as well be horizontal" writes @CamillaTominey

Partygate has thrown a grenade under No 10, but as far as the Leader of the House of Commons is concerned, everything’s still tickety-boo
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“I’m a great supporter of his but I wouldn’t say we are close friends,” Rees-Mogg says of Boris Johnson.

“I would say I am a carrier of the flabellum” - which is, the devoted Catholic adds, “the ostrich feather carried in front of the Pope.”
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The so-called “Honourable Member for the Eighteenth Century” has carved out a niche as one of Parliament’s most cartoonish characters

Double-barrelled he may be, but by his own admission Rees-Mogg is “nowhere near as posh” as Helena, his wife of 15 years
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It was Helena who said they would not be adding to their Waltons-esque family following the birth of their sixth child, aptly named Sixtus, in 2017.

“I’m done,” she said. “I’ve told him there will be no Septimus and no Octopus"
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“I just do meekly what I’m told. But I love spending time with my children. It’s the greatest pleasure and such fun. They’re the only people who laugh at my jokes” says Rees-Mogg
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Rees-Mogg claims something about his ‘unmodern man’ schtick has been lost in translation.

“That doesn’t mean that Helena does all these things, very bluntly because I pay other people to do them...I make no bones about it, we have a very fortunate life”
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Doesn’t that make him a tad out of touch with the average voter?

“I always think there’s a bogusness about assuming that you have to lead exactly the same life as people to understand the life that they lead" he says
Read the full interview 👇
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