Thread by @tomhfh

Jacob Rees Mogg now up saying he arrived in Blackpool singing to himself ‘oh I do like to be beside the seaside’.

JRM: “The old Labour adage that the man in whitehall really does know best is the opposite of our view.”

Cites how the Tories trusted the people this winter, while the nationalists in Scotland and socialists in Wales enforced mandates.

Jacob Rees Mogg says 475,000 civil servants is too many.

Until recently we didn’t even know how many regulations we had from Brussels.

Says all but one department has got back to him with how many they have.

And out of those, 1478 regulations from Brussels are clogging up our laws.

Cites how we regulate vacuum cleaners when many countries don’t. In elsewhere those that don’t work just don’t get bought.

“We have to move away from European mindset that things should be regulated in the first place”

“Our model should look at best practice across the world.”

Says the way to deal with cost of living crisis is through supply side reforms.

This is the most Thatcherite speech I’ve heard from a cabinet minister since the one Lord Frost made not long before he resigned.

“In 1661 the public executioner took all the illegitimate laws of Cromwell and burnt them publicly. How about that for EU regulations!?”

“If you ever say government money you should fine yourself and give it to a worthy charity. It is taxpayers money not government money.”

Big applause.

“I am asking you to provide me with the great kindling wood…. So that the flames way burn through the legislative folly that the European Union left us with.”

Big applause.