Jacob Rees-Mogg brushes off leadership talk – but does not rule out bid

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the backbench Tory traditionalist, has dismissed reports that he could be the next Conservative party leader as products of the August “silly season”.“I wouldn’t put any money on it,” he told Radio 4’s Broadcasting House on Sunday, when asked why two Sunday newspapers were running stories, separately sourced, saying he would like to succeed Theresa May.The “silly season” is a newspaper term for the period in the summer when the rel