17-08-2017 17:03 via theguardian.com

You can be a Tory moderniser without stealing ideas from Labour | Kate Maltby

The party needs unapologetic free marketeers who also embrace cosmopolitan Britain. What it doesn’t need is Jacob Rees-Mogg as leader
There is no deeper indication of a political party in grip of breakdown than the suggestion it might turn to Jacob Rees-Mogg as its saviour.For any readers still blissfully unaware, Rees-Mogg is the pin-striped, Trump-backing opponent of gay marriage and abortion who notoriously took his former nanny on the campaign trail. (His eldest son, at nine, accompani
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