The Moggcast
The Moggcast
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A fortnightly look at the latest political news with Jacob Rees-Mogg. Brought to you by ConservativeHome.com
The Moggcast: Episode Eighty Four, Tuesday 21st February 2023
The Protocol: "I don't know why Sunak has spent so much political capital without getting the DUP and ERG onside first" Plus: How a Remain win in the referendum would have given us Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage - and why "Putin probably would have succeeded" in invading Ukraine.
Feb 21, 2023
24 min
The Moggcast: Episode Eighty Three, Tuesday 7th February 2023
Brexit - and how Corbyn saved Britain from "a government of all the non-talents" Rees-Mogg on Cameron, Vote Leave, No Deal, May's Deal, Johnson's Deal, Gove's leadership bid - and whether a Remain view of Britain shaped the reception of Kwarteng's mini-Budget.
Feb 7, 2023
30 min
The Moggcast: Episode Eighty Two, Tuesday 24th January 2023
NHS reform. The Conservatives should learn from Wes Streeting. And "we should encourage people to use private health." Plus: How the Tory "nimby tendency" killed housing reform. Why leadership contest this year would be "completely scatty". And those who "scribble" criticism of Johnson are "fundamentally dull".
Jan 24, 2023
24 min
The Moggcast: Episode Eighty One, Tuesday 13th December 2022
In defence of Johnson’s premiership. Our interviewee says that a feature of one-to-one meetings with the former Prime Minister is that the other party would sometimes believe commitments had been made when they hadn't.
Dec 13, 2022
31 min
The Moggcast: Episode Eighty, Tuesday 29th November 2022
"These rebellions are ill advised...You don't help your own seat by making life difficult for the Government." Our interviewee on why he regrets the top rate tax U-turn, backs the radical abolition of tax reliefs, and thinks Chief Whips "can't resign, really" - as he recalls the fracking vote.
Nov 29, 2022
20 min
The Moggcast: Episode Seventy Nine, Tuesday 8th November 2022
The Truss premiership, part one. Rees-Mogg on the alternative energy support plan he preferred. Our interviewee on what went wrong - featuring Boris Johnson, the Bank of England, the OBR, pension funds, Kit Malthouse, why the Covid and energy support schemes were justified... and where the Government didn't act urgently enough.
Nov 8, 2022
28 min
The Moggcast: Episode Seventy Eight, Tuesday 12th July 2022
Rees-Mogg says that Johnson should have the opportunity to stand again for the leadership if he wishes. Our interviewee on how he's "extremely unlikely" to stand for the leadership - plus the Sex Pistols, Sunak's failings, Gove, Zahawi's "mistake", why he opposes HS2, who he might vote for and how he would deliver tax cuts.
Jul 12, 2022
30 min
The Moggcast: Episode Seventy Seven, Tuesday 28th June 2022
Are these by-election defeats the prelude to a 1992 surprise - or a 1997 catastrophe? Plus: Rees-Mogg and Henry Hill discuss the proper limits of the Bank of England's independence.
Jun 27, 2022
26 min
The Moggcast: Episode Seventy Six, Tuesday 14th June 2022
The Cabinet Office Minister on the benefits of Brexit. Plus: why Ministers aren't under an obligation to vote for the Party Leader in a confidence ballot.
Jun 13, 2022
24 min
The Moggcast: Episode Seventy Five, Tuesday 17th May 2022
Civil servants' "trade union seems to want them to be in Tuscany to call into work" The Cabinet Office Minister on the Baxdendale Report, returns to Thatcherism and why he was right to say Partygate is "disproportionate fluff".
May 17, 2022
25 min
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