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The Commons Leader criticised the Speaker over his handling of Brexit during a speech to the Conservative Party conference in Manchester on Sunday. Mr Rees-Mogg said: “As a parliamentarian, no listen, listen, because I’m actually going to be nice about him. “As a parliamentarian, I have been in many ways and remain a great admirer of the Speaker.
“He has helped MPs hold the Government to account and to seek redress of grievance.
“But in my view, he has now flown too close to the sun and I hope that as he comes to his retirement he will not allow the good he has done in his earlier years to be forgotten.
“But his recent mistakes have to my deepest regret as Leader of the House of Commons damaged the standing of the House in the eyes of the British public to the lowest point in modern history.”
Earlier, during a panel discussion on Brexit, Mr Rees-Mogg also dismissed the idea of a government of national unity as being a “Remainer coup”.
He said: “It is not unity at all, it is a Remainer coup, isn’t it?
“It’s to try and frustrate and stop what 17.4 million people voted for.
“And the comeuppance they will get if they defy the electorate will come in the ballot box when we come to a general election.
“So fear nothing that they do, fear nothing of their schemes and strategies, because ultimately we will have a general election and parties that deny democracy get into great trouble when people have the chance to vote.”
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He said: ”You see this in the House of Commons – politicians who said to their electors ‘we accept the result, we will deliver Brexit’.”
Mr Rees-Mogg’s anger appears to come from the Lords’ decision to rush through the Benn Act, the legislation designed to delay Brexit rather than face a no-deal withdrawal from the European Union on October 31.
Mr Rees-Mogg told the reception in Manchester: “The House of Lords – entirely unaccountable to anybody – has set its face against the British people.
“If the House of Lords exists for anything – and that’s a debatable point – it exists to ensure that law is made in an organised, structured manner with a delay between its stages.
“For the House of Lords to rush through all its stages in 24 or 48 hours hits at the heart of the purpose of the House of Lords, a second chamber which I have always been in favour of because of its ability to be deliberative.
“When – because they hate Brexit – they abandon the principle of their existence, you see that reform becomes necessary for their lordships’ house.
“It cannot carry on setting its face against the British people.”
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