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| Jacob Rees-Mogg tells Leave.EU: don't join Tories on my account | Jacob Rees-Mogg tells Leave.EU: don't join Tories on my account |
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| Jacob Rees-Mogg has disowned calls by Leave.EU for its backers to join the Conservative party to support him in a potential future leadership bid, warning against a takeover by single-issue “fanatics”. | Jacob Rees-Mogg has disowned calls by Leave.EU for its backers to join the Conservative party to support him in a potential future leadership bid, warning against a takeover by single-issue “fanatics”. |
| Leave.EU, the pro-Brexit campaign group co-founded by rightwing businessman Arron Banks, claims to have 88,000 supporters, and has urged them to “flood” the Tory party to elect a “true Brexiteer” such as Rees-Mogg or Boris Johnson as the next leader. | Leave.EU, the pro-Brexit campaign group co-founded by rightwing businessman Arron Banks, claims to have 88,000 supporters, and has urged them to “flood” the Tory party to elect a “true Brexiteer” such as Rees-Mogg or Boris Johnson as the next leader. |
| Fed up of how this weak "conservative" government has handled Brexit?A leadership contest is inevitable. Join the huge number of our members already flooding the Tory party, ready to elect a true Brexiteer.Help put the spine back into the Tory party: https://t.co/Vgc33bXJWn pic.twitter.com/GUy1UWix07 | Fed up of how this weak "conservative" government has handled Brexit?A leadership contest is inevitable. Join the huge number of our members already flooding the Tory party, ready to elect a true Brexiteer.Help put the spine back into the Tory party: https://t.co/Vgc33bXJWn pic.twitter.com/GUy1UWix07 |
| Leave.EU’s activities have prompted centrist MPs including Anna Soubry and Nicky Morgan to warn about the risk of “entryism” in their party. | Leave.EU’s activities have prompted centrist MPs including Anna Soubry and Nicky Morgan to warn about the risk of “entryism” in their party. |
| But Rees-Mogg told the Guardian: “They’re not doing it in my name. Of course I want people to join the Conservative party, but I want them to join because they support a broad swath of values.” | But Rees-Mogg told the Guardian: “They’re not doing it in my name. Of course I want people to join the Conservative party, but I want them to join because they support a broad swath of values.” |
| He said encouraging people to join up to back a single issue, or candidate, was “not a good approach to running a political party and its supporters, because entryists tend to be fanatics, as the Labour party has found”. | He said encouraging people to join up to back a single issue, or candidate, was “not a good approach to running a political party and its supporters, because entryists tend to be fanatics, as the Labour party has found”. |
| The MP added: “What the Conservative party wants is what it’s always had, which is members who are by and large already doing things in their communities – people who are running the church fete or raising money for the RNLI. | The MP added: “What the Conservative party wants is what it’s always had, which is members who are by and large already doing things in their communities – people who are running the church fete or raising money for the RNLI. |
| “You want being a member of the party to be a completely normal thing that sensible people do, not something that is done for one particular policy, however important that policy is. Conservatism is much broader than that.” | “You want being a member of the party to be a completely normal thing that sensible people do, not something that is done for one particular policy, however important that policy is. Conservatism is much broader than that.” |
| Labour is Britain's richest party – and it's not down to the unions | |
| Leave.EU is one of the groups responsible for an upsurge in campaigning activity on both sides of the heated Brexit debate, as negotiations in Brussels approach their denouement. | Leave.EU is one of the groups responsible for an upsurge in campaigning activity on both sides of the heated Brexit debate, as negotiations in Brussels approach their denouement. |
| With the hardline pro-Brexit European Research Group mobilising MPs to oppose Theresa May’s Chequers deal, there is a risk that the prime minister could face a vote of no confidence. | With the hardline pro-Brexit European Research Group mobilising MPs to oppose Theresa May’s Chequers deal, there is a risk that the prime minister could face a vote of no confidence. |
| Conservative rules say that anyone who has been a member for at least three months before a contest has a vote. | Conservative rules say that anyone who has been a member for at least three months before a contest has a vote. |
| Many at Westminster believe the greatest challenge for a pro-Brexit candidate such as Johnson or Rees-Mogg would not be winning over grassroots activists, but securing the support of enough MPs. | Many at Westminster believe the greatest challenge for a pro-Brexit candidate such as Johnson or Rees-Mogg would not be winning over grassroots activists, but securing the support of enough MPs. |
| Conservative MPs whittle down the field of candidates to two, in a series of secret ballots, and members then have the final say. | Conservative MPs whittle down the field of candidates to two, in a series of secret ballots, and members then have the final say. |
| The latest poll of Tory members by the website ConservativeHome earlier this month showed Johnson is currently the most popular candidate, with the home secretary, Sajid Javid, second and Rees-Mogg third. | The latest poll of Tory members by the website ConservativeHome earlier this month showed Johnson is currently the most popular candidate, with the home secretary, Sajid Javid, second and Rees-Mogg third. |
| Some activists have called for the rules to be rewritten to enhance the role of members, but Rees-Mogg said the former foreign secretary William Hague was right to argue earlier this week that MPs should continue to have a significant say. | Some activists have called for the rules to be rewritten to enhance the role of members, but Rees-Mogg said the former foreign secretary William Hague was right to argue earlier this week that MPs should continue to have a significant say. |
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