Rees-Mogg tipped as potential Tory party chairman
Robert Jenrick has said he plans to make Sir Jacob-Rees Mogg chairman of the Conservative Party if he beats Kemi Badenoch to become Tory leader.
Sir Jacob, who was business secretary under Liz Truss, lost his seat in the July election, with Labour overturning a more than 15,000 vote majority.
“Jacob has been a tireless campaigner for the grassroots. He understands better than anyone the need for party reform,” Mr Jenrick told The Telegraph.
“One of my first acts as leader would be to appoint him as chairman of the party so we can truly reform and democratise our party. Together we will empower members and restore the respect that has been so sorely lacking in recent years,” he said.
Endorsed
As party chairman he would be put in charge of campaigning operations. Sir Jacob endorsed former immigration minister Mr Jenrick earlier this week.
He told GB News: “Who do we want to lead us to the next general election? Who do we think can take on the Reverend Starmer? Who will be able to converse with Nigel Farage and see where that may go one way or another? Who can steal Nigel’s clothes, if necessary, which may be the best way of going about it?
“Well, I’ve come to the conclusion that that person is Robert Jenrick.”
Tory MP Richard Fuller took over as interim party chairman after fellow MP Richard Holden resigned the post after the general election.
Winner
It will be up to whoever becomes the new party leader to choose a chairman.
The final two candidates, chosen by the parliamentary party, must now secure the support of Conservative members across the country who will cast their votes ahead of the final result being announced on November 2.
Over 150,000 members were registered and able to vote in the previous leadership election that saw Liz Truss ascended to the leadership of the party.
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Honest Bob is unhinged. Boris cull of 2019 is haunting this party now. None of these should ever have got off the back benches including Mr Mogg. He now wants everyone in his shadow cabinet to be full on out the ECHR. Mr Mogg is so excellent at his job he got absolutely everything wrong about brexit and asked the sun readers for help in forming policy. Nothing he ever did in ministerial office resulted in anything but ridicule. The cons parked him up out the way after the Grenfell comments in the 2019 election. Heck, this party put Johnson… Read more »
Moggy didn’t everything wrong. Whilst imposing the disaster of Break-it on all of us, this wise hypocrite transferred a load of his business interests into the EU to ensure HE was not a victim of his own ‘crimes’ that he deems fine for the rest of us.
Didn’t DO.
His own constituents in North East Somerset didn’t want him so honest Bob if he gets through will promote him to tory chairman, you couldn’t make this up. Oh wait a minute another clown who wants to rid us of human rights 😤.
The upcoming new leader of the Tories, (I’ll be stunned if he’s not and we all know why), is going to make Moggy chairman of the party. First they were wrong, then they double down on wrong and get smashed out of power. Now they quadruple down on wrong by offering such a position to a person the electorate told to get lost. They all need to be sent on a course teaching ‘How to read a room’ and furthermore, how to be an opposition to the elected government rather than being an opposition to the five MPs with turquoise… Read more »
Cut the Tories some slack, f.f.s. They now have about 5 years in Opposition so they might as well make it as hilarious as possible with a front row full of clowns and deviants. Starmer will have an open goal in about 5 years’ time unless of course he and his crew also elect score own goals at the rate they’ve managed over recent weeks.
In the own goal penalty shoot out, Partygate, PPE, ripping up rule books to protect mates, let the bodies pile high, cadjin’ hundreds of thousands off the tax payer to do up a gaff, protecting sexual deviants, endless austerity, mortgage annihilation, not paying people properly, proliferating poverty and hatred, lies, lies, lies etc etc etc against a few freebies is a non match but it all depends on the goldfish memories of their forgive anything voters when the time comes. I’m going to retain my elephant memory which dates back to the immorality of Thatcher so they’ll never have a… Read more »
You make a valid point but who will remember anything come 2029 if all that’s happened in the meantime is more pain inflicted by a London based elite. Starmer’s Labour fits the Uniparty cardboard cut out to a “T”. Some variations on a theme, but definitely same general direction of travel.
Some carrot on a stick…
Pantomime season will shortly be upon us…
Bovine or Equine…?
The Donkey alone stands aloof from the herd…
If the Tories had any common sense then they would move to the centre ground. Steering further to the right will deter voters away from them, and are a gift to Labour.
The problem with FPTP is that being the biggest minority party doesn’t just make you the biggest minority in parliament. It gives you a majority. Which means that we have been governed by minority (usually England’s choice) governments for aeons. So if the right wing whips up a big enough minority we’ll land up with Tory nutters in charge again or worse, the Reform mob. Nothing would surprise me in this dysfunctional dilapidated messed up UK.
The other issue with FPTP is that it encourages tactical voting, in which voters are compelled to select the lesser of 2 evils. The Labour + Lib Dem + Green + Plaid + SNP vote is (at least for now) still higher than the Conservative + Reform vote. Plus not all Reform voters would be prepared to switch to the Tories, and many moderate tories will probably stick with Labour or go to Lib Dems than support Reform UK policies.
Robert ( I refuse to use Bob!) don’t do it! Rees-Mogg and democrarcy are polar opposites. Like putting a fox in charge of the hen-house.
But then, who wants the Tories to succeed? …. Go ahead Bob! More power to your elbow!
Lord SNOOTY he talks posher than the royals