Jacob Rees-Mogg

"Pakistanis, living in England? They're not in a class by nature of where they've come from."

"I do wish you wouldn’t keep going on about the nanny [...] If I’d had a valet, you’d think it was perfectly normal."

"I'm a man of the people. Vox populi, vox dei."

"We could have two referendums. As it happens it might make more sense to have the second referendum after the renegotiation is completed."

"the county of Somerset as defined by the Lieutenants Act shall revert to the customary time used prior to the Great Western Railway time established in 1840"

"Basically I want people to be able to get on with their lives without the government bossing them about. I’m all in favour of nannies but not the nanny state."

"You can't have too many people using a special loo or it's no longer special — but it's now a disabled loo, so anyone can use it."

"We could, if we wanted, accept emissions standards from India, America, and Europe. There'd be no contradiction with that [...] We could say, if it's good enough in India, it's good enough for here. There’s nothing to stop that."

"We could take it a very long way. American emission standards are fine – probably in some cases higher. I accept that we're not going to allow dangerous toys to come in from China, we don't want to see those kind of risks. But there's a very long way you can go."

"I am a late convert to social media and it's turned out to be great fun"

"It (the European Court of Justice) cannot be our senior court for a day after we leave the EU"

"Once we have left and we have control, there is a political argument about what levels of immigration we should have... that is really going to be a challenge and an issue for the competence of the Home Office. It is not so much a question of Brexit. It is Brexit which makes it possible, it is then administrative efficiency that will make it happen."

"Life is sacrosanct and begins at the point of conception,"

"I am a Catholic and I take the teachings of the Catholic Church seriously,"

"[The voluntary support given to food banks is] rather uplifting and shows what a compassionate country we are"

"The transition which the EU is offering means that we're still effectively in the European Union for the following two years,"

"We need to be free to do deals with the rest of the world. We must be out of the protectionist common external tariff which mainly protects inefficient EU industries at the cost to British consumers."

"How you police your border is a decision for a sovereign state"

"The Remainers are fighting their last rear-guard action to try and stop Brexit"

"[Accepting EU trade rules and regulations would be] the worst option [for Brexit]. It's hard to think of a worse idea."

"Leaving on a world trade deal is a perfectly sensible thing to do but I think we can do better"

"I think the idea of a second referendum is perfectly ridiculous."

"No Conservative would do anything to harm the union and that crucially includes Northern Ireland."

"What we are seeing from this government is a deliberate decision not to deliver a proper Brexit"

"Everybody wants a deal; the prime minister wants a deal, the EU wants a deal and the Irish wants a deal,"

"My suspicion is that any delay to Brexit is a plot to stop Brexit. This would be the most grievous error that politicians could commit."

"I have always thought that no deal is better than Mrs May's deal, but Mrs May's deal is better than not leaving at all."

"I want us to leave the European Union"

"It is a grave error to try and use legal process to settle political questions,"

"The issue at hand is whether it was right to use the gross or net level of our contribution to the European Union - that is a matter of free speech and the democratic process."

"The candyfloss of outrage we've had over the last 24 hours, which I think is almost entirely confected, is from people who never wanted to leave the European Union"

"And instead of this endless carping, saying it's difficult to get them, we should actually celebrate this phenomenal success of the British nation in getting up to a quarter of a million tests of a disease that nobody knew about until earlier in the year."

"I think it is a real scandal that UNICEF should be playing politics in this way when it is meant to be looking after people in the poorest, the most deprived, countries of the world where people are starving, where there are famines and where there are civil wars. And they make cheap political points of this kind, giving, I think, £25,000 to one council. It is a political stunt of the lowest order."

"The key is that we have our fish back: they are now British fish, and they are better and happier fish for it."

"I think you're being very rude to marsupials ... I think it makes kangaroo courts look respectable [On The World at One (BBC Radio 4)]"

"Boris is doing very well against the marsupials. [Tweet during the hearing]"

"[T]he privileges committee is not even a proper legal set up. It has a gossamer of constitutional propriety thrown over it, but it is in fact a political committee against Boris Johnson."

"Parties that try and gerrymander end up finding their clever scheme comes back to bite them – as dare I say we found by insisting on voter ID for elections. We found the people who didn’t have ID were elderly and they by and large voted Conservative, so we made it hard for our own voters and we upset a system that worked perfectly well."

"I thought Uxbridge was a fundamentally important result for us. It shows that if you are on the side of voters and doing things to make their lives better, rather than worse, then lo and behold people will actually vote for you. Let other countries catch up and let us catch their breath. Let us move away from an ideological view of net zero and work with the environment in a way that is affordable."

"I've done my bit by having six children, so now you do yours."

"I want cheaper food. I want hormone-injected beef from Australia. I've eaten beef in Australia, it's delicious. There's nothing wrong with it."

"If I were American I'd want the border closed, I'd be all in favour of building a wall. I'd want to build a wall in the middle of the English Channel."

"The answer lies in reuniting the Right. What we need is a big, open and comprehensive offer to those in Reform."

"With the help of Nigel Farage in a Conservative government, as a Conservative minister, with Boris Johnson probably returning as foreign secretary and welcoming the likes of Ben Habib and Richard Tice into our party, as well as pursuing genuinely conservative policies, winning the next election suddenly becomes within reach."

"Recall that Rees-Mogg likes to pose as a custodian of our unwritten constitution. In fact, he is a vandal in pinstripes, ready to undermine public trust in the very parliamentary democracy he pretends to cherish."

"[T]he Honourable Member for the 18th Century."

"His manners are perfumed, but his opinions are poison. Rees-Mogg is quite simply an unfailing, unbending, unrelenting reactionary."

"[C]harming and funny, kind, mad and totally himself."

"I know that within the Tory party the hard Brexiteers are compared to the leaders of the French revolution. I think Gove is Brissot, and Boris Johnson is Danton, and Rees-Mogg is compared to Robespierre. We should not forget that the efforts of these men were not appreciated by the common man they claimed to represent – because they all ended up on the guillotine. So that’s important to remind [them]."

"In 1997 he was selected to contest Central Fife, a gritty former mining region and the last place in the UK to elect a Communist MP. As he went from door to door, it emerged that the elderly lady accompanying him was his nanny. But rumours that he took the Bentley are nothing short of scurrilous. "Of course I took nanny!" he cries. "She’s one of the family – and I needed all the support I could get. But I didn’t drive the Bentley – I couldn’t have afforded the petrol – so it was the Merc.""