He's always been an objectionable Tory cunt. The Little Lord Fauntleroy persona is a crude attempt to disguise those objectionable views behind a veneer of respectability.
I remember a joke by Simon Hoggart about Rees-Mogg's father--something like 'a good guide to living in the modern world is to assume the opposite of what Lord Reees-Mogg tells you is the case'.
Exactly.
He's always been an objectionable Tory cunt. The Little Lord Fauntleroy persona is a crude attempt to disguise those objectionable views behind a veneer of respectability.