Some battle-scarred Tories believe the party needs its own outsider, its own Corbyn, to lead them into Brexit – and that that man is extreme rightwinger Jacob Rees-Mogg. Everything they think of as youth is not represented by Jacob Rees-Mogg. Jacob Rees-Mogg offers the Brexit most people want: straight to the point, leave, no transition. It will, in the terminology Rees-Mogg pushes, result in a “clean Brexit”, a “true Brexit”, a “pure Brexit”. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the ObserverThe wonderful thing about Brexit, Rees-Mogg tells a standing-room only event for the Bruges Group thinktank, is that Brexit is a wonderful thing.

Source: The Guardian October 08, 2017 06:56 UTC