Jacob Rees-Mogg Calls For Tory-Reform Pact – Guido Fawkes

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Tory grandee Jacob Rees-Mogg – who lost his North East Somerset seat to ex-Labour MP Dan Norris – was on Newsnight yesterday. Dan Norris was suspended by Labour after he was arrested on suspicion of rape and child sex offences last month…

Speculation on whether Rees-Mogg would run again, were there to be a by-election – and for which party – has been rife. Last night, he called for an electoral pact between Reform and the Tories, telling the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire:

“If we oppose each other, we let Labour win large majorities, and that makes no sense. So we want to come together, we want to co-operate, we want to put the national interest ahead of party pride.”

Both Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage have ruled out a national pact between the parties. Rees-Mogg also didn’t rule out standing for Reform…