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Civil servants' "trade union seems to want them to be in Tuscany to call into work"
The Cabinet Office Minister on the Baxdendale Report, returns to Thatcherism and why he was right to say Partygate is "disproportionate fluff".
Join us for this live recording of The Moggcast - a look at the latest political news and current affairs with Jacob Rees-Mogg. This episode was recorded live at Conservative Spring Conference in Blackpool, and is held in partnership with Thorncliffe.
"The Green Blob has had the view that UK energy is bad in principle."
The Leader of the House on the war - and fracking: "it's not the San Francisco earthquake".
Civil servants shouldn't use Black Lives Matter hashtags. They must be be "completely apolitical".
Rees-Mogg suggests that the health spending that the NIC increase will finance could be funded by savings he can find.
Operation Midland. The treatment of Harvey Proctor was "deeply scandalous"
Rees-Mogg says he doesn't know whether Starmer bears any responsibility for the practice of automatically believing complainants.
On Islam and Muslims. "Being on the same side as people who believe in God is tremendously important."
The Leader of the House on Downing Street parties, whips and threats, Covid... and Ukraine.
"Are you going to resign?" "I’m fully supportive of the Prime Minister."
The Leader of the House on why Lord Frost was wrong to quit - though "it's important for governments to be held to account."
"You have to learn to live Covid... life is about taking risks"
"We cannot switch the economy on and off," the Leader of the House says, as the Commons prepares to vote today.
Our interviewee discusses MPs' second jobs, Lord Evans' report on standards, and the public mood around potential further restrictions.
The Paterson aftermath. Rees-Mogg backs extending the Right of Recall - by making it "broader and higher"
"Safeseat-itis" is a problem, he says - suggesting that the Tories could use open primaries with constituency-wide postal ballots.
On the Paterson case, "it would normally appear to be fair for those witnesses to be heard".
Plus: the Standards Commissioner's "interesting" refusal to call them. And, on COP26: "people will not vote to ruin their standard of living".
"He was kind to everybody... He was adored in his constituency." Rees-Mogg pays tribute to Amess.
And: How social media has soured political discourse. Plus: Why people who don't come to constituency surgeries may be the ones most in need.
AUKUS and French outrage. "We should accept a little bit of garlic eating" says our interviewee.
And: why it's reasonable that 12 out of 13 sacked Ministers are men. Plus: now he's fathered six children "that's probably it".
"It is odd that if you’ve got Alzheimer's it's not paid for, but if you’ve got cancer it is paid for".
"I do feel that it is right for the state to do things for people that the overwhelming majority can’t realistically do for themselves".
“I will not be wearing a mask. What would be the point?”
The Leader of the House on why he won't usually wear a face covering after July 19th.
"I think one of the Prime Minister's many attractive qualities is loyalty to people who work for him." Rees-Mogg also suggests that it may have been required for Hancock's relationship with Gina Coladangelo to be declared.