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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

PopCons reassemble and Jacob Rees-Mogg is the sanest person in the room

Jacob Rees-Mogg raises both hands as he speaks behind a lectern
Jacob Rees-Mogg speaking at the Popular Conservatism post-election event in central London. Photograph: Maja Smiejkowska/PA

I’m waiting near the front door of the Emmanuel Centre in Westminster drinking a coffee. A well-dressed man leans in and whispers: “Did you manage to get your MP over the line?” I’ve been mistaken for one of the last men – and they are almost all men – standing. A true believer.

I don’t want to upset the man so I just mumble that we did get our woman over the line. I don’t mention that the woman was Labour’s Rosena Allin-Khan. It might break him completely.

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