Jacob Rees-Mogg had an open goal to make potshots at the Labour Party this weekend. The Oxford Union held a debate called “This House Does not Know What Labour Stands For”. Rees-Mogg was the star speaker, arguing in favour of the motion. The Union did not secure a Labour MP to mount a defence, but not for want of trying. One of the students said they had contacted over 50 Labour MPs asking them to take part, but all of them dodged the invite.
Rees-Mogg took the opportunity to jibe away. He described Labour as “a sort of light blue Tory Party” and made a fittingly laboured comparison between Starmer’s policy reversals and the U-turns in James Bond car chase scenes. “As Labour becomes more and more Tory I feel the country becomes safer and safer,” he added, to a smattering of applause.
