Boris Johnson defends Jacob Rees-Mogg as Brexit infighting intensifies

Boris Johnson has leapt to the defence of Jacob Rees-Mogg after the leading Brexiteer was rounded on by fellow Conservative MPs.The MP for North East Somerset has been widely attacked for demanding Prime Minister Theresa May "stand firm for what she herself has promised", prior to crunch cabinet discussions on the PM's plan for a future UK-EU relationship.Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan was among those who hit out at Mr Rees-Mogg's "insolence" in "lecturing and threatening" the PM, stati