Jacob Rees-Mogg is now the man in charge of our hard-won workers’ rights, as the secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy.
The UK’s last two prime ministers, Theresa May and Boris Johnson, both promised that Brexit would not weaken employment rights, and that EU-derived protections would be retained, or replaced by something even better. Reportedly, though, Liz Truss does not feel bound by the same promise, and appears to have brought in arch-Brexiteer Rees-Mogg to shred these rights.
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has called for the government to ‘come clean’ over its plans. So what hints can we get from Rees-Mogg’s own words about workers’ rights over the years?
