BTW, Rees-Mogg has been taking advice from Steve Bannon, so expect to see more stuff that's familiar from the US election.
I was about to add, it would be a challenge even for Bannon to sell Rees-Mogg as a Man Of The People™. But then I remembered he's just successfully sold that schtick about a hereditary millionaire whose businesses go bust, so who knows.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jacob-rees-mogg-steve-bannon-meeting-politics-london-hotel-breitbart-tory-a8088001.html
Jacob Rees-Mogg met with Donald Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon to discuss how the conservative movement can be victorious in elections in the UK, it has been reported.
The meeting took place at a Mayfair hotel and Mr Rees-Mogg described Mr Bannon as “an interesting man to have met”, it is said.
It is thought they spoke about US and UK politics and the former senior adviser to the President also met with former Ukip leader Nigel Farage.
Mr Bannon, who is a self-described economic nationalist and populist, was believed to be Donald Trump’s right-hand man before he was forced out of the White House in August.
He returned to work for the far-right news organisation Breitbart and his meetings in the UK were organised by Raheem Kassam, the editor of Breitbart London.
“Brexit and the election of President Trump were inextricably linked, so the discussions focused on how we move forward with winning for the conservative movements on both sides of the pond,” Mr Kassam told the Guardian.
“How you build movements, on the ground and digitally, and what Steve’s brand of economic nationalism – which puts the interests of ordinary people first – can do in the US and United Kingdom.”