'We're the opposition': Rees-Mogg and his European Research Group

As Theresa May limps off to recess, the hard-Brexit group is already spoiling for the next fightAs Theresa May and her weary MPs limp towards the summer recess this week, battered by late-night dramas and torn loyalties, only one faction in the bitterly divided Conservative party appears emboldened and ready for the next fight: Jacob Rees-Mogg’s European Research Group (ERG). Funded partly by contributions from MPs’ taxpayer-funded office expenses, and with its own spinners and de fa