Conservative MP Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg was in Boris Johnson’s cabinet, and was given a knighthood in the former prime minister’s resignation honours list last week.
He has told BBC Radio 4’s World at One programme a Commons motion backing the Committee report would be passed next Monday, with the support of opposition parties and a “small number of Tory Boris-haters”.
But Rees-Mogg, a staunch ally of Johnson, claims the report is “fundamentally flawed”, and the real problem is that Labour’s Harriet Harman chaired the inquiry and drafted the report, despite having tweeted “aggressively” – he says – against the then-PM in April 2022.
Defending Johnson and others who have attacked the report and the inquiry process, Rees-Mogg argued there was nothing wrong with criticising Parliament, which made mistakes and was “not perfect”.
