Spending needs to be ‘efficient’ says Jacob Rees-Mogg MP

How will the government’s plans for such a high tax burden go down with their own backbenchers?

Yesterday there was a glimpse of discontent brewing when former minister Esther McVey threatened to vote against the government if the HS2 rail project wasn’t axed.

We’re joined by Jacob Rees-Mogg, who served in the cabinets of both Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, but has now returned to the backbenches.