Charles Moore Charles Moore

There’s nothing wrong with Jacob Rees-Mogg lying down in the Commons

issue 07 September 2019

If you are a journalist covering politics this year, every moment is a bad moment to take a holiday. I took a short one last week in search of grouse and arrived at Hunthill, the proud Scottish fastness of our host Henry Keswick, to find that Boris Johnson had promised to prorogue parliament.

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