Governments want to control information. To do this, they have elaborate systems for promoting themselves via propaganda departments and for ensuring confidentiality with official-secrets laws. There are good reasons for these: people need information, and national security deserves secrecy. Jacob Rees-Mogg Read Quote
Press freedom has great virtues. It is not about irresponsible scandal-mongering, although that may be part of the picture. It is a means of revealing wrongdoing. Jacob Rees-Mogg Read Quote
Constitutionally, a revising chamber is useful and important. The first occasion I know of in history when the Lords fulfilled this role was in 1539 when Henry VIII’s act of proclamations was neutered by their lordships so effectively that the Act was repealed in 1547. Jacob Rees-Mogg Read Quote
Extradition treaties date back at least to 1259 B.C., when the Hittite King Hattusili the Third and Ramesses the Second signed a treaty of ‘peace and brotherhood for all time.’ They have become more commonplace as international travel has become easier and sensibly streamlined. Jacob Rees-Mogg Read Quote
I think that conservative principles have a broad appeal, and you should state them boldly, and the point of a Conservative election is to do conservative things, not to do Labour things but slightly less damaging. Jacob Rees-Mogg Read Quote
I’m not a great beer drinker, but I do like Butcombe, probably because it’s made of good Somerset water. Jacob Rees-Mogg Read Quote
Marriage is a sacrament, and the decision of what is a sacrament lies with the Church, not with Parliament. Jacob Rees-Mogg Read Quote
