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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Jacob Rees-Mogg accuses Tucker Carlson of ‘verging on defending Hitler’

A composite of Tucker Carlson gesturing while speaking and Jacob Rees-Mogg
Carlson repeatedly suggested to Rees-Mogg that the west was to blame for inviting Russian aggression and said of the prospect Britain could have lost to Hitler: ‘Who cares?’ Composite: Chip Somodevilla, Leon Neal/Getty Images

The former Tory minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has found himself defending Britain’s decision to fight against Adolf Hitler after inviting the US rightwinger and Vladimir Putin sympathiser Tucker Carlson into his home for an interview.

During the encounter, Carlson repeatedly suggested the west was to blame for inviting aggression from Russia and said of the prospect that Britain could have lost to Hitler: “Who cares?”

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