The new Leader of the Commons Jacob Rees Mogg has issued a guide to his staff outlining terms and phrases he does and does not expect to see in communications from them.
Mr Rees Mogg who has a history degree and published this year The Victorians, a widely slated volume of essays on the nineteenth century does not appear immune from using some of the banned words himself however
In his Chapter Napier: The Great Radical he uses the banned word ‘invest’ twice while the Chapter Sleeman: Moral Purpose uses the banned word ‘equal’ which also appears twice in Albert: Behind the Throne and once in Disraeli: The One-Nation Conservative
Perhaps Mr Rees Mogg needs to use part of the Parliamentary Recess to write out one hundred times ‘I must not use words and phrases that I myself have banned others from using’
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