No 10 has backed Jacob Rees-Mogg over Nadine Dorries amid a cabinet split over his drive to get civil servants to stop working from home, which Dorries had labelled “Dickensian”.
Rees-Mogg, who has previously been called “the honourable member for the 18th century”, had written to cabinet ministers urging them to coerce staff into a “rapid return to the office” and has been leaving notes in empty Whitehall workspaces with the message: “I look forward to seeing you in the office very soon.”
