Kate Plummer
Feb 21, 2023
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Jacob Rees-Mogg has hit out at Rishi Sunak by comparing him to Theresa May.
The prime minister is currently sorting out the Northern Ireland protocol with the DUP and Rees-Mogg thinks he's not doing the best job.
On his ConservativeHome podcast, Rees-Mogg said: âThere seems to me to be no point in agreeing a deal that does not restore power-sharing.
âThat must be the objective. If it doesnât achieve that objective, I donât understand why the government is spending political capital on something that wonât ultimately succeed.â
He said the bill had the support of âthe person who had a mandate from the British votersâ â Boris Johnson â and questioned Sunakâs handling of the situation.
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âI donât know why so much political capital has been spent on something without getting the DUP and the ERG] onside first,â he said.
He said it was âvery similar to what happened with Theresa Mayâ where a policy would be presented in the hope that people would âconveniently fall in behindâ.
Rees-Mogg added: âSo a story would appear in The Times and Downing Street would say âno, this isnât quite right, it isnât at all rightâ.
âThen a week or two would go by and it would turn out to be completely right and they would hope that people would just conveniently fall in behind the announced policy.
âLife doesnât work like that. Itâs important to get support for it first before you finalise the details and that doesnât seem to have been done here.â
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