Alexis Petridis’ hilarious tweets about prospective tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg

How have I previously missed prospective Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg? “In 1997, he was parodied for canvassing in Central Fife with his nanny”

He later told the Mail On Sunday: “If I’ve got a nanny, I’ve got a nanny. And if anybody doesn’t like it – tough!”

He then added: “I do wish you wouldn’t keep going on about my nanny. If I had a valet you’d think it was perfectly normal.”

More Rees-Mogg. He apparently ended his speech at his recent wedding reception by shouting “LEFTIES – GET OUT!”

…which certainly makes a change from “charge your glasses to the bridesmaids”.

Fellow pupils at Downside public school debating society proposed the motion: “This House Would Like To Exterminate Jacob Rees-Mogg”

‘He’s a clever chap,’ a friend remarked. ‘Could have gone to the top. But he shoots himself in the foot with this stuff about his nanny.’