Meet the Rees-Moggs, the reality TV show about Jacob Rees-Mogg and his family is here, and it will be fascinating, because he is. It is easy to take him at face value, which means his own terms: an old Etonian with a moldering manor house, a rich wife, mesmerizingly named children and a nanny who lives in and scolds him. He shares their lives, courtesy of the production company that made At Home With The Furys because he wants the world to understand him.
“When they [his Leftist enemies] find out that what goes on behind the walls of Gournay Court [the manor] is not so different to their own home, they may pause for thought,” he told The Sunday Times. It’s political outreach then, a plea for tolerance and, perhaps, a political comeback: once longing to be prime minister, he lost his seat in the summer Tory cull. Having your own Reality TV show offers what political operatives call “cut through”. People will listen if they know who you are. That’s the theory, at least, and it airs on Discovery+, which specialises in anthropology.
