Jacob Rees-Mogg has been appointed Business Secretary in the government of new Prime Minister Liz Truss, as the country heads towards a lengthy period of recession. The often-controversial figure will take the helm and work closely alongside new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng.
The MP for North East Somerset is taking over at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The hardline Brexiteer and Boris Johnson loyalist, who is a product of Eton and Trinity College, Oxford, has long lauded his own financial acumen.
Mr Rees-Mogg, who was an opponent of a windfall tax on energy firms, will come under scrutiny over his green credentials given the energy remit of his role. He has previously warned against “climate alarmism” and said he wants his constituents to have cheap energy “rather more than I would like them to have windmills”.
