Current Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees Mogg likes to portray himself as an historian and has published in 2019 a volume of historical studies, The Victorians.
An interesting question is how history will remember Rees Mogg. It is of course far too early to say.
However Dave Cameron in his contractual obligation memoirs has an early take on the matter.
The context was Parliamentary discussion of the 2012 House of Lords Bill which aimed to reform the Upper Chamber. It was passed but abandoned due to Tory opposition.
Rees Mogg spoke in the debate and Cameron notes his intervention thus:
backbencher Jacob Rees Mogg stood up with a spurious point of order. Though he was from the new intake and still in his early forties, Jacob was a caricature of an old-fashioned Tory: double-breasted suit, cut-glass accent and socially conservative views. He was also a profilic Parliamentary rebel.
Its as well to remember here that Cameron himself went to Eton and was a member of the Bullingdon Club at Oxford both of which are quite old fashioned…
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