Who could see Jacob Rees-Mogg as authentic? Only the gullible Tories | Marina Hyde

Behind the rise of Moggmentum is a Conservative condition. Even teenagers at Eton knew he was a squit, but his party is obsessed with faux eccentricsJacob Rees-Mogg’s rise to apparent Tory leadership prospect sounds like something his father might have predicted. A celebrated former editor of the Times, Rees-Mogg senior had such an erring gift for futurology that Private Eye nicknamed him Mystic Mogg. He was arguably the first modern journalist who really should have got out of the predict