Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg

Patience is a virtue; virtue is a grace.

Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg

A constitutional monarchy requires the monarch to be above politics but to be fully informed about politics.

Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg

In the U.S., free speech and the press are protected by the First Amendment. It has a clarity unmatched by modern legislators and declares that 'Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or the press.'

Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg

When Margaret Thatcher was leader, she and Michael Heseltine were hardly soulmates, but she would not have allowed personal rivalry to take the heat off the Labour Party, whose own deep internal divisions are buried in other news now, nor would she have countenanced any attempt to have a show trial.

Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg

Lobbying has become a term of reproach, as if it were improper to push for a particular belief. This has happened because of paid lobbyists whose opinions are for hire and the fear that decision-makers, whether politicians or officials, are susceptible to their charms and wiles. This has tarred entirely proper lobbying with the same brush.

Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg

I would almost certainly vote for Trump if I was American.

Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg

If people ignore the rules already, new regulations are not likely to deter them.

Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg

Free Trade puts consumers at the centre of economic activity. It lowers the cost of imports, which gives people the opportunity to buy more with the same amount of money: domestic producers have to compete with the lowest global costs or invest in new business.

Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg

You've got to judge people, ultimately, by their actions rather than their words.

Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg

Tony Blair adopted the accent of the audience he was speaking to, which worked very well initially, but then voters began to perceive him as phoney. The 'man of the people' act is the height of condescension.

Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg

Zero-hours contracts are a low proportion of the workforce; they provide a route into employment and flexibility for staff. They benefit business, consumers, and taxpayers by keeping costs down, and they boost productivity, allowing the efficient use of labour.

Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg

I've made no pretence to be a modern man at all, ever.

Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg

'Ever closer union' is one of the totemically controversial phrases in the European Union's Treaties. It seems to give weight to the view that the scheme is designed to end in a single state and that those who agreed the texts have long know this, even if they have been unwilling to admit it to the British people.

Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg

Eschatological fears are an ancient human concern. The Romans expected the world to end in 634 B.C. owing to a prophecy involving twelve eagles, while the early Christians anticipated the Final Judgment in their own lifetimes. Pope Sylvester II thought A.D. 1000 would be the last year, a view updated for the modern age by the Millennium bug.

Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg

Mark Carney is one of the enemies of Brexit. He has opposed it consistently.

Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg

No one questions the right of individuals to go to the Central Lobby to explain their views to their own Member of Parliament. It is important for those in power to hear arguments in favour of policies from all sides and ought to lead to better decision-making.

Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg

The BBC always wants to blame things on Brexit. I'm not saying this is a conspiracy: I'm saying it is a fact of life.

Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg

Subsidising inefficient businesses does not encourage them to become more competitive and means that extra money has to be taken from tax payers for the same result. Inevitably, this reduces the total size of the economy and lowers living standards.

Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg

A poor worker is taxed heavily to receive his own money back with a modest supplement. Surely it would be more efficient just to pay the supplement and take him out of direct tax altogether.

Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg

In England and, later, the United Kingdom, Habeas Corpus is a right of great antiquity: Anyone who is arrested must be brought before a court, but this does not apply in continental countries.