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Jacob Rees-Mogg Quotes

born 1969 England

Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 24 May 1969) is a British Conservative politician. He was Leader of the House of Commons (2019–2022) and Minister of State for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency (2022) and served as Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy during the brief premiership of Liz Truss.

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Leaving on a world trade deal is a perfectly sensible thing to do but I think we can do better

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.

Everybody wants a deal; the prime minister wants a deal, the EU wants a deal and the Irish wants a deal

What we are seeing from this government is a deliberate decision not to deliver a proper Brexit

It (the European Court of Justice) cannot be our senior court for a day after we leave the EU

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.

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.

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.

I am a Catholic and I take the teachings of the Catholic Church seriously

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

The answer lies in reuniting the Right. What we need is a big, open and comprehensive offer to those in Reform.

The Remainers are fighting their last rear-guard action to try and stop Brexit

[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.

[The voluntary support given to food banks is] rather uplifting and shows what a compassionate country we are

[Accepting EU trade rules and regulations would be] the worst option [for Brexit]. It's hard to think of a worse idea.

I want us to leave the European Union

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