Jacob Rees-Mogg opposes fur and foie gras ban as it 'limits personal choice'
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Jacob Rees-Mogg told Andrew Marr to “get a sense of perspective” this evening, after the broadcaster described the “intense anger” he felt at the death of his father.
Marr, who presents the LBC show Tonight with Andrew Marr, told the Cabinet minister:
I buried my father on the week that one of those parties took place and it was a party. He was an elder of the Church of Scotland – that church was locked and barred. We had a small gathering, most of the family weren’t there. The other parishioners he would have loved to be there weren’t allowed to be there because we followed the rules. And I felt intensely angry about that – and I do not regard this as fluff.”
Rees-Mogg told Marr that while he believed closing churches during Covid was a “great mistake”, he did not regret using the word “fluff” to describe partygate allegations.
“What is happening now two years on against what’s going on in Ukraine, what is going on with the cost of living crisis, one has to get a sense of perspective,” Rees-Mogg said.
“What is going on in Ukraine is fundamental to the security of the Western world.
“And you are comparing this to a fine issued for something that happened two years ago.”
He added: “I think we need to look at what is fundamental to the security of our nation and the security of the Western world.”
Marr told the Brexit opportunities minister that what happened to him “happened to so many others up and down the country.”
“We find, I would say, that word ‘fluff’ quite offensive”, he said.
But Mr Rees-Mogg replied: “I still think that in comparison with the war in Ukraine… a fine for something that happened two years ago is not the most pressing political matter”.
“The Daily Mail headline said ‘don’t forget there’s a war on’ and this is something we have to remember - we need a sense of perspective”.
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