Jacob Rees-Mogg has said he would be “delighted” for his back garden to be fracked, as he risked deepening divisions within the Conservative party by deriding those who oppose the controversial practice as “socialists”.
The business secretary was bullish about restarting fracking in England after a nearly three-year moratorium, saying the current limit of magnitude 0.5 to avoid mini-earthquakes being caused was “ridiculously low”.
