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Jacob Rees-Mogg

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“Pakistanis, living in England? They're not in a class by nature of where they've come from.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Ali G (16 February 1999).
“I do wish you wouldn't keep going on about the nanny [...] If I'd had a valet, you'd think it was perfectly normal.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed by Camilla Long "Maybe he’s canvassing in the King of Spain’s private loo" The Times (11 April 2010).
“I'm a man of the people. Vox populi, vox dei.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed by the BBC as part of the programme Posh and Posher: Why Public School Boys Run Britain (19 January 2011).
“We could have two referendums. As it happens it might make more sense to have the second referendum after the renegotiation is completed.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Parliament during a debate on whether to hold a referendum on the UK's EU membership (24 October 2011).
“the county of Somerset as defined by the Lieutenants Act shall revert to the customary time used prior to the Great Western Railway time established in 1840”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tory MP calls for Somerset to have its own time zone BBC News (18 January 2012).
“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.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed by the Guardian (2 March 2012).
“You can't have too many people using a special loo or it's no longer special — but it's now a disabled loo, so anyone can use it.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On an exclusive toilet at the hotel Claridge's. March 2013.
“We could, if we wanted, accept emissions standards from India, America, and Europe. There'd be no contradiction with that [...] We could say, if it's good enough in India, it's good enough for here. There’s nothing to stop that.”
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“We could take it a very long way. American emission standards are fine – probably in some cases higher. I accept that we're not going to allow dangerous toys to come in from China, we don't want to see those kind of risks. But there's a very long way you can go.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At a Treasury Select Committee hearing, as cited in "Britain could slash environmental and safety standards 'a very long way' after Brexit, Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg says", The Independent (6 December 2016).
“I am a late convert to social media and it's turned out to be great fun”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jacob Rees-Mogg announces baby Sixtus BBC News (5 July 2017).
“It (the European Court of Justice) cannot be our senior court for a day after we leave the EU”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: No role for EU court after Brexit says Rees-Mogg BBC News (1 August 2017).
“Once we have left and we have control, there is a political argument about what levels of immigration we should have... that is really going to be a challenge and an issue for the competence of the Home Office. It is not so much a question of Brexit. It is Brexit which makes it possible, it is then administrative efficiency that will make it happen.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: No role for EU court after Brexit says Rees-Mogg BBC News (1 August 2017).
“Life is sacrosanct and begins at the point of conception,”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jacob Rees-Mogg 'completely opposed' to abortion BBC News (6 September 2017).
“I am a Catholic and I take the teachings of the Catholic Church seriously,”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jacob Rees-Mogg 'completely opposed' to abortion BBC News (6 September 2017).
“[The voluntary support given to food banks is] rather uplifting and shows what a compassionate country we are”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jacob Rees-Mogg: Food banks 'rather uplifting' BBC News (14 September 2017).
“The transition which the EU is offering means that we're still effectively in the European Union for the following two years,”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brexit: UK must not be EU 'colony' after Brexit BBC News (16 December 2017).
“We need to be free to do deals with the rest of the world. We must be out of the protectionist common external tariff which mainly protects inefficient EU industries at the cost to British consumers.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jacob Rees-Mogg says Treasury 'fiddling figures' on Brexit BBC News (3 February 2018).
“How you police your border is a decision for a sovereign state”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brexit: 'Only phantom government wants hard border' BBC News (10 May 2018).
“The Remainers are fighting their last rear-guard action to try and stop Brexit”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: UK needs Brexit 'safe harbour' - David Miliband BBC News (14 May 2018).
“[Accepting EU trade rules and regulations would be] the worst option [for Brexit]. It's hard to think of a worse idea.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brexit 'worst option' warning for May on customs BBC News (4 July 2018).
“Leaving on a world trade deal is a perfectly sensible thing to do but I think we can do better”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Boris Johnson says May's Brexit plan 'worse than status quo' BBC News (11 September 2018).
“I think the idea of a second referendum is perfectly ridiculous.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed on LBC radio having got the result he wanted (1 October 2018).
“No Conservative would do anything to harm the union and that crucially includes Northern Ireland.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jacob Rees-Mogg: Divide in customs post-Brexit 'impossible' BBC News (1 October 2018).
“What we are seeing from this government is a deliberate decision not to deliver a proper Brexit”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ditch May now or she will lead us into 2022 election, Rees-Mogg tells Tories BBC News (20 November 2018).
“Everybody wants a deal; the prime minister wants a deal, the EU wants a deal and the Irish wants a deal,”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rees-Mogg says reformed Brexit deal could win over critics BBC News (23 January 2019).
“My suspicion is that any delay to Brexit is a plot to stop Brexit. This would be the most grievous error that politicians could commit.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Theresa May offers MPs Brexit delay vote BBC News (26 February 2019).
“I have always thought that no deal is better than Mrs May's deal, but Mrs May's deal is better than not leaving at all.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brexit options 'narrowing', says health secretary BBC News (26 March 2019).
“I want us to leave the European Union”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: European elections 2019: Rees-Mogg backs Conservative candidate BBC News (9 May 2019).
“It is a grave error to try and use legal process to settle political questions,”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brexit: Boris Johnson ordered to appear in court over £350m claim BBC News (29 May 2019).
“The issue at hand is whether it was right to use the gross or net level of our contribution to the European Union - that is a matter of free speech and the democratic process.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brexit: Boris Johnson ordered to appear in court over £350m claim BBC News (29 May 2019).
“The candyfloss of outrage we've had over the last 24 hours, which I think is almost entirely confected, is from people who never wanted to leave the European Union”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brexit: Next week 'only opportunity' to act on no deal BBC News (29 August 2019).
“And instead of this endless carping, saying it's 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.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jacob Rees-Mogg attacks 'endless carping' about Covid testing shortages", The Guardian (17 September 2020).
“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.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jacob Rees-Mogg under fire for dismissing Unicef's UK grants as stunt", The Guardian (17 December 2020).
“The key is that we have our fish back: they are now British fish, and they are better and happier fish for it.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Business of the House" Hansard, HoC, Vol. 687 (14 January 2021).
“I think you're being very rude to marsupials ... I think it makes kangaroo courts look respectable [On The World at One (BBC Radio 4)]”
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“Boris is doing very well against the marsupials. [Tweet during the hearing]”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Johnson distances himself from 'kangaroo court' claims made by allies" Evening Standard (22 March 2023).
“[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.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On GB News (30 March 2023) reproduced in a privileges committee report on other parliamentarian's conduct during their investigation into Boris Johnson, as cited in "The remarks that got these Johnson allies in hot wate…
“Parties that try and gerrymander end up finding their clever scheme comes back to bite them – as dare I say we found by insisting on voter ID for elections. We found the people who didn’t have ID were elderly and they by and large voted Conservative, so we made it hard for our own voters and we upset a system that worked perfectly well.”
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Recorded in: From a speech (15 May 2023) at the National Conservatism conference in London, cited in "Voter ID is 'gerrymandering' which backfired on Tories, says Rees-Mogg" The Independent (15 May 2023).
“I thought Uxbridge was a fundamentally important result for us. It shows that if you are on the side of voters and doing things to make their lives better, rather than worse, then lo and behold people will actually vote for you. Let other countries catch up and let us catch their breath. Let us move away from an ideological view of net zero and work with the environment in a way that is affordable.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comments on GB News (24 July 2023), as cited in "Rishi Sunak signals he could abandon green policies that cost consumers", The Guardian (24 July 2023).
“I've done my bit by having six children, so now you do yours.”
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Recorded in: On GB News (27 July 2023), as cited by Kenan Malik in "Conservative calls for women to have more babies hide pernicious motives", The Observer (6 August 2023).
“I want cheaper food. I want hormone-injected beef from Australia. I've eaten beef in Australia, it's delicious. There's nothing wrong with it.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rally for Growth event at the Conservative Party conference, as cited in "Politics Hub: Tory conference latest: 'Rishi reset' derailed by HS2 - as mayor makes direct appeal to Sunak", Sky News (see 13:18, 2 October 2023…
“If I were American I'd want the border closed, I'd be all in favour of building a wall. I'd want to build a wall in the middle of the English Channel.”
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Recorded in: From a leaked recording of comments to Young Conservatives (March 2024), as cited by Jessica Elgot "Rees-Mogg tells young Tories he wants to 'build a wall in the English Channel'", The Guardian (2 July 2024).
“The answer lies in reuniting the Right. What we need is a big, open and comprehensive offer to those in Reform.”
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“With the help of Nigel Farage in a Conservative government, as a Conservative minister, with Boris Johnson probably returning as foreign secretary and welcoming the likes of Ben Habib and Richard Tice into our party, as well as pursuing genuinely conservative policies, winning the next election suddenly becomes within reach.”
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Recorded in: On his GB News programme (14 May 2024), as cited in "Give Farage the chance to be a Tory, Rees-Mogg tells Sunak", The Telegraph (15 May 2024).