Jacob Rees-Mogg has done a u-Turn on previous comments when he said Theresa May should immediately resign in the wake of a confidence vote - which was a better result than the one Boris Johnson just got. In 2018 Prime Minister May received a no-confidence vote from 37% of her MPs. Following this Mr Rees-Mogg said: “She ought to go and see the Queen urgently and resign.”
However after 40% of Tory MPs said Boris Johnson should go Mr Rees Mogg said: “When I said that, everybody said to me I was wrong. I was wrong on two grounds. One is that democracy requires that one is enough, and the other is that it was ungenerous.
“Somebody has won and I accepted that, that I think that I was mistaken in saying that there were secret, hidden rules. I don’t think there are, but of course then Theresa May then lost parliamentary votes and that was what led to her going rather than the vote of confidence.”
