The comma touch: Jacob Rees-Mogg's aides send language rules to staff

Jacob Rees-Mogg will reportedly never be ‘pleased to learn’ anything. Photograph: Alastair Grant/APA list of rules has been sent to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s staff asking them to stop using words such as “hopefully” and demanding that they use only imperial measurements and give all non-titled males the suffix Esq.Aides to the new leader of the House of Commons sent out the list shortly after Rees-Mogg’s appointment to the role by the new prime minister on Wednesday n