He gets away with things that others wouldn’t.
On the night that May survived the ‘no confidence’ vote he was asked squarely if the result was a reflection of what amounted to a lack of influence the ERG actually had within the Conservative Party, and whether he/they would, essentially, just get back into their box.
An interesting question.
He started his answer by saying ‘you’re missing the point, the point is…’ and then rattled off his ‘well they’re all in the pay of the Government’ line, ‘they’ve lost the support of the backbenchers’ etc. An interesting point, but not exactly an answer to the question.
Was he pulled up on it? He was not.
If Jacob Rees Mogg is elected by the Conservative Party as the Prime Minister of our country without subsequently asking the general electorate to give him their backing, i will consider it a declaration of war alike to Charles I raising the Royal Standard in Nottingham.