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UNCOVERED: Unlike jacob rees mogg britain won t take fracking lying down | History Defined

Jacob Rees-Mogg is escorted by police past protesters on the first day of the Conservative conference in Birmingham.
Jacob Rees-Mogg is escorted by police past protesters on the first day of the Conservative conference in Birmingham. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

If Jacob Rees-Mogg really believes that the only people who don’t like fracking are “the socialists and Caroline Lucas”, he’s clearly not been paying attention (Rees-Mogg tells Tories he’d welcome fracking in his back garden, 3 October)

This may come as no surprise since, until recently, his most memorable position on the green benches at Westminster has been horizontal. But if he couldn’t see the large numbers of his own party’s backbench MPs queueing up to voice their outrage at his proposal to restart fracking when he made his announcement a few weeks ago then he should certainly have been able to hear them.

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