People feel that politicians are just completely out of touch.” These words, spoken by Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg in his new Discovery+ fly-on-the-wall reality show, Meet the Rees-Moggs, feel... apt, shall we say. They come just after he has banged an actual gong to summon his family for dinner in their gargantuan Somerset country pile to celebrate the birthday of his youngest son, Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher Rees-Mogg (yes, really).
There are many surreal moments like this during the top-hat-wearing former Tory MP’s latest televisual vehicle. It is arguably they, rather than his controversial, outdated politics, that hold the key to understanding why he has become such an object of fascination for a nation still secretly obsessed with class.
