Jacob Rees Mogg gets it wrong on Boris Johnson & cakes
As Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees Mogg has the job of answering general questions from MPs on Parliamentary business. He doesn’t always address the task with the seriousness some at least might think it deserves and his self-belief often leads him into erroneous points.
On 27th January for example he criticised Labour’s focus on Downing St and cakes
May I say how pleased I am that she(Annaliese Dodds MP) has finally moved off cake? It has seemed to me over the past few weeks that all the Opposition could ever talk about was cake—whether we have had our cake and eaten it, whether there has been no cake, whether there never was any cake, or what cake there may have been; how it was baked, how many eggs there were in it, whether it was made with margarine or butter, or what type of cake it was: did it have sponge or was it chocolate? All these issues about cake have been an obsession of the Opposition, so I am glad that we are now getting on to some more serious subjects.
Jacob Rees Mogg, House of Commons 27th January
One problem is that Boris Johnson genuinely does have a long term strategy of having his cake and eating it (Sonia Purnell, Just Boris). She quotes a ‘senior Tory MP’ when Johnson stood for London Mayor in 2008 while still MP for Henley: ‘Boris never wants to deny himself the right to have his cake, eat it and then have a bun’.
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