Jacob Rees Mogg
Total 13 Posts
Rees-Mogg changes tune on voter ID: It was gerrymandering all along
3 min read
Former Tory minister Rees-Mogg calls voter ID law “gerrymandering”, saying it hurt elderly Conservative voters in the recent local elections. Government ministers have denied partisan motives.
Another Brexit year begins
15 min read
Professor Chris Grey’s latest Brexit analysis on why it is not in the “remainers’” power to create a post-Brexit consensus, a discussion about the Retained EU Law Bill and Northern Ireland Protocol, plus some thoughts prompted by Frost’s hero-worship of Edmund Burke.
Brexit is slowly being discredited, but there’s still a long way to go
15 min read
Professor Chris Grey’s latest Brexit analysis, looking at how and why even over Christmas the Brexit debate continued, and the case for caution as well as optimism in reading the most recent opinion polls.
This could open the door to fracking
4 min read
We will continue to stand side-by-side with the local people of Dunsfold in their campaign to protect the environment from a drilling project that could open the door to future projects that will add to the UK’s carbon footprint.
Rats in a sack
6 min read
It’s all going so terribly well, isn’t it? Liz Truss is living down to expectations that she would prove to be the next worst Prime Minister in living memory and is doing so in spectacular style.
What Liz Truss’s government means for climate action
5 min read
Liz Truss has appointed a loyal cabinet with varied environmental credentials. While the new government represent a threat for UK action on climate change, their ability to inflict damage to climate policy will be restricted.
Liz Truss’s Conservative chip pan fire
6 min read
The Conservatives promised that their Brexit would deliver sunlit uplands, what they are delivering is unlit slum lands.