The fall of the Tory party

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Squaredisk

Speaking as part of The Political Party show with Matt Forde on Sunday, Rees-Mogg said he did not think the Tories could have “overcome a 20% deficit in the opinion polls”, adding: “I wrote to my children at boarding school before the election to say ‘Look, I will probably lose.’ I tried my best to warn them that I was going to lose my seat.

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mespilus in reply to @Squaredisk

Of course he wrote to them, enclosing modest postal orders for them to spend at the tuck shop.

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