A leading academic who said Brexit would dramatically reduce the British university sector’s standing in global rankings has admitted the claim was “plucked out of the air”.
Leading Brexit supporter Jacob Rees-Mogg MP has warned Britain faces “perpetual purgatory” in the European Union, after the government signalled it would be willing to remain tethered to the bloc’s Customs Union after 2021.
Theresa May has attacked the leading Brexit-backing Tory Jacob Rees-Mogg in front of other MPs, slamming his support for a clean Brexit, outside the Customs Union with the Irish border open.
If there’s one politician Donald Trump absolutely has to meet on his trip to the UK this summer, it’s Conservative backbench MP Jacob Rees-Mogg.
The Foreign Secretary has defended a clean Brexit and blasted the Prime Minister’s “crazy” plan to keep the UK tied to the Customs Union, as Theresa May moves to pressure her cabinet into back the plan.
European Union (EU) bosses want to control the UK’s post-Brexit trade policy as they fear a hard left Labour regime led by Jeremy Corbyn will clam down on free trade and competition.
Theresa May’s plan to keep the UK tied to the European Union (EU) with a “customs partnership” is faltering, as the bloc rejects it and the majority of her Brexit cabinet is now opposed.
Brexit leader Nigel Farage has backed Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg as the next Conservative Party leader and a possible Prime Minister to lead the UK out of the European Union (EU).
Leading Brexiteer MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has said Peers working to frustrate Brexit in the House of Lords are “contemptuous of democracy” and “out of touch with the people,” calling them “cave dwellers.”
Leading Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has slammed London Mayor Sadiq Khan, saying he must “take responsibility” for the violent crime wave sweeping the city, driving its murder rate above that of New York City.
Conservative Party backbencher and leadership hopeful Jacob Rees-Mogg shocked fans today by speaking out against Enoch Powell MP’s famous Birmingham speech. Rees-Mogg, whose father once wrote a Times of London editorial attacking Powell’s speech as “evil” took to Twitter on
The UK’s foreign aid budget soared by £555 million to almost £14 billion last year – meaning it has more than doubled in roughly a decade.
A committee of MPs, many of whom opposed Brexit, have launched a new push to potentially keep the Uk tied to European Union (EU) rules and regulations, with member Jacob Rees-Moogs rebelling and defending a clean Brexit.
Leading Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg has denied he will “fling” dead fish into the water from a fishing boat on the Thames in protest of the government “selling out” Britain’s fisheries in the latest Brexit agreement.
Brexit champion Jacob Rees-Mogg has issued a coded ultimatum to Theresa May on Brexit, and chided EU loyalists who treat the European Commission’s pronouncements as “holy writ”.
Leading Brexit-supporting Jacob Rees-Mogg has argued the European Union (EU) is manipulating the issue of the Irish border in an attempt keep the UK tied to many of its rules and regulations.
Arlene Foster, who leads the Brexit-supporting Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) which props up Theresa May’s minority government in Parliament, has slammed Remainers for using the threat of violence in Northern Ireland as a political expedient.
Unelected Brussels bureaucrats are set to demand the UK continues to obey the rulings of European Courts for an indefinite period after Brexit as they maintain their uncompromising stance in divorce negotiations.
Leading Brexiteer MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has said an indefinite Brexit ‘transition’ period would be a “perversion of democracy”, slamming a leaked government proposal containing no provision for immigration controls.
More than 60 backbench Tory MPs have sent the Prime Minister a list of demands that will guarantee a clean break from the European Union with “full regulatory autonomy” outside the bloc.
Theresa May’s government is sticking by its massive foreign aid commitments despite funding crises in the Armed Forces, healthcare, and social care, and tens of thousands signing petitions to scrap it.
The European Union has backed down from its plans to insert a ‘punishment clause’ into its Brexit deal with the United Kingdom, after leading Leave campaigners including Jacob Rees-Mogg said the country would not “roll over” for Brussels.
The UK must remain tied to the European Union’s (EU) Customs Union and many rules of the bloc or be hit with “unavoidable barriers to trade”, Brussels’ chief Brexit negotiator has told Theresa May.
A group of masked, back-clad, alt-left Antifa extremists attempted to shut down a speech by Tory leadership favourite Jacob Rees-Mogg in a confrontation that escalated into violence. Mr Rees-Mogg, a leading favourite to succeed current Conservative party Prime Minister Theresa May according to
Britain must not simply “kowtow” to EU transition demands, leading Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg hit back after the government claimed criticism was ‘unhelpful’.
The leading Brexit backing MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has demanded the government “fundamentally change” it’s “tone” on Brexit, as the Chancellor called for a clean Brexit to be abandoned with only “very modest” changes to the UK’s links with the bloc.
Member of Parliament for North Somerset Jacob Rees-Mogg has lectured the British government’s Brexit minister David Davis MP, reminding him that Britain is not continuing its membership of the European Union and therefore does not need to behave as a
From City AM: Jacob Rees-Mogg has been elected to lead the European Research Group, a group of Tory MPs who scrutinise the government’s handling of Brexit. Rees-Mogg, a leading Eurosceptic, stood unopposed in the election for the chairmanship. The position
HM Revenue and Customs has been accused of being “hostile to democracy” after hitting Leave campaign donors with huge tax bills, while the giant banking corporations which backed the Remain campaign are left unscathed.
A draft European Parliament resolution sets to make EU citizens in the UK ‘a super-privileged caste’, with rights greater than those of Britons, and the European Court of Justice will guarantee those rights for 10 years after Brexit.
Former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon met in London on Thursday with Jacob Rees-Mogg, Conservative Member of Parliament and “a favourite among Conservative members to be the next party leader,” according to The Guardian.
President Trump has offended pretty much the entirety of Britain’s political and media establishment up to and including the Prime Minister, the Mayor of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury. As a result, the Special Relationship is once more in jeopardy, and Trump has decided to cancel a planned working visit to the United Kingdom.
As the Brexit talks drag on, the formerly Remain-supporting prime minister is said to be planning to double her previous offer to the EU of roughly £20 billion to roughly £40 billion.
Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg has said the UK is not obliged to capitulate to the European Union over the divorce bill and that the government should invest in preparing for a “no deal” Brexit.
Tory members favour socially conservative and committed Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg MP as a replacement for Theresa May, as her position as leader looks increasingly weak.
A number of marshals policed a speech at King’s College London (KCL) by Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg, after his appearance was judged to pose a risk to the university’s “safe space” policy.
Leading Tory backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg has dubbed the BBC the “Brexit bashing corporation” due to its anti-Brexit bias.
Jacob Rees-Mogg and his strongly pro-Brexit stance has received a warm reception at the Tory party conference.
The European Union’s unelected executive “pretty much dictated” parts of Theresa May’s Florence speech on Brexit, according to gloating bureaucrats in Brussels.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, normally a stalwart defender of Theresa May, has slammed the prime minister’s Florence speech, drawing a red line over the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) during the two-year ‘implementation’ period, and has demanded that Free Movement ends in 2019.