'Staggeringly silly': critics tear apart Jacob Rees-Mogg's new book

Rees Mogg, the ERG chair and MP for North East Somerset, reportedly spent about 300 hours writing the book. Photograph: Yui Mok/PAAdoring colleagues on the right of the Conservative party hang on Jacob Rees-Mogg’s every word in the House of Commons, considering him one of Brexit’s foremost rhetoricians.But after the release of his new book about eminent Victorians, the literary world has begged to differ, with critics gleefully mauling it as “staggeringly silly” and &ldqu