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Morning. How are you?

I can sort of see you, yeah. Perfect.

It's slightly like "Big Brother is watching you".

Shame on you! Shame on you!

You're a wanker.

I hope I don't get a cease-and-desist from Johnnie Boden.

"Could you please not wear my clothes,

"you awful, Tory, right-wing, fox-hunting Brexiteer?"

They sound the horn and off they all go. Magnificent.

I'm well aware that there are risks in reality TV.

...worse result at a General Election

than John Major's defeat in 1997...

From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success.

Let's go to Disneyland Paris in France.

Top priority is to go to the battlefields.

Jacob Rees-Mogg!

Could always go for Strictly or I'm A Celeb.

I feel in a terrible state of undress.

How do you feel about following in this long line of family documentaries?

I think this will be a rather different kettle of fish from the Kardashians.

Why?Well, I have no idea,

'cause I've never watched them, so I don't have a clue.

Please be gone. Vote Conservative!

Who are you?

Erm... Who am I?

Erm... Erm...

I'm Jacob Rees-Mogg. I'm the Member of Parliament for North East Somerset.

I was elected in 2010.

Since then I've had some posts in government

and I've been involved in some political controversy.

Are you plotting? Plot? I wouldn't know how.

Are you completely opposed to abortion in all circumstances? Erm, yes, I am.

Rape and incest? Sexual violence?I'm afraid so.

Brexit is completely under control. Is it, really?

You're a wanker.

You're often described as one of the most divisive politicians in the country.

Why do you think that is?

I'm afraid - and this is probably a sin -

I quite enjoy winding people up.

The Leader of the House has been spread across around three seats,

lying out, as if that was something very boring

for him to listen to tonight.

I'm very lucky. I have a wife and six glorious children

who are my pride and joy.

We got together in about July of 2005.

Jacob would call it "courting",

and if I'm being honest, I couldn't really think about anything else

other than Jacob at that stage.

Obviously, I didn't tell him that.

I was taking her out for dinner on her birthday,

and I'd tried to get, from a bookshop,

Veronica Wedgwood's excellent biography of Thomas Wentworth,

and unfortunately didn't have any copies.

Instead I went into Fortnum & Mason and bought earrings,

and did you know ladies prefer to be given a pair of earrings

to a book on their distinguished ancestors?

I was absolutely bemused by this.

We had a very nice dinner there,

and afterwards Jacob said, "You should marry me, you know."

"But I want lots of children," I said.

He said, "Great. So do I. We can have 12. A cricket team."

Being me, I said, "Minimum four, maximum six."

Morning.

Good morning. I am going to go.

I'll unload the dishwasher later.

Shoes.

How would you describe your dad?

Brilliant. Funny.

He's very un-funny.

Your breath stinks. Brush your teeth.Shut it.

Our eldest three children, Peter, Mary, and Thomas,

are all at boarding school...

...but our youngest three are at day school in London.

He looks like he's mad. Yeah, I am.

Anselm is our fourth child. He's absolutely lovely.

I think very good-looking as well, actually.

Who needs shoes? What am I waiting for?

Nothing, really. Oh! Mum.

She does take a century to come.

Alfred is very much his own man.

Don't tell the others, but Alfred may be our brightest child.

I'm going to turn the TV on,

but I don't know what I'm going to do.

Sixtus, yes. Erm...

I'm going to do something.

He was really quite late to talk,

which apparently is normal for the youngest of a large family,

because they cannot get a word in edgeways.

I only know the F-word,

the B-word,

and the S-word.

There won't be a No.7?

No! No, thank you very much.

I think the world's got quite enough Rees-Moggs already, hasn't it?

We've been here before with gossip and rumours

about whether a General Election is about to be called

or when it's gonna be called.

Is it different today?

All the signs are pointing to the fact

that the Prime Minister is preparing to call an election later today.

Earlier today I spoke with His Majesty the King

to request the dissolution of Parliament.

The King has granted this request,

and we will have a General Election on 4th July.

Oh, hello.General Election. General Election?

General Election on his birthday. You're joking?

So, the General Election's been called,

probably rather earlier than anticipated,

and the mood of the country is definitely not pro-Conservative.

The mood is anti-Conservative,

possibly with some justification, unfortunately.

Would I have made that decision?

No. I'd have waited longer,

because interest rates can calm down,

we might get some people back to Rwanda,

the economy is picking up a bit.

Rain at a wedding is a good omen,

so I hope that that's also true of a political announcement.

I think his tailor will be a little upset

to see his hard work being ruined by the precipitation.

What are your hopes?

For me personally, I hope and expect to maintain my seat,

but my seat is more at risk than it has been since 2010.

My phone keeps buzzing, but there we go.

What's your role for this election?

Give as much support as possible,

helping campaign whenever I can,

and, you know, keeping the domestic show on the road.

Right. I must just pop back to the Commons.

Unfortunately, it does look as though the Conservatives are on course

for a crushing defeat on 4th July.

Does Jacob have a fight on his hands?

Jacob has got the fight of his political life on his hands.

Absolutely, yes.

PASSER-Can't wait. Thank you.

Where are we driving to, Jacob?

I'm heading to Somerset to start my election campaign.

The team should be here, led by Margaret.

What does Margaret do? Everything, absolutely everything.

I think if I wasn't here,

Jacob would manage perfectly well,

but he likes other people to do it.

What Jacob likes is his life to run smoothly.

Can we get it over if we all give it a push?

I don't know now. No, it's all open now.Oh, I see.

During the campaign I will be out every day knocking on doors, delivering leaflets,

meeting as many people as I can

in the 25 working days of the election,

plus weekends and Bank Holidays.

These are letters to people who are pledged as definite Conservatives,

possible Conservatives, or people who we think may be Conservatives.

Give me seven.Seven.

Yup, forward.

Jacob's the leader, the banner-waver, if you like, of his team.

Hello. Can I give you a leaflet? Jacob Rees-Mogg, Conservative candidate.

Can I give you one of my cards?

The way he walks and the way he dresses

singles him out when he's in the constituency.

Oh, thank you. You are kind. That's really nice of you. Thank you.

People in the street know him. What I might call White-Van Man, they honk as they go past.

Come on, Jacob.Thank you.

But it's not all sweetness and light, of course.

Very often you get a rude sign.

Down with the Tories!

But Jacob's answer to that is, "Thank you!"

Nice to see you. Being heckled at work, how is that?

It's all the fun of politics. I don't mind.

Luckily this is a quiet street, but it's not ideal, is it?

Uh-oh.

The ball went through the gap. Are you surprised?

Listen, it doesn't matt... Listen.

Hello. Sorry to bother you,

but their ball's gone into your area.

During the General Election campaign,

Jacob and I will be living apart during the week,

but I won't be doing everything by myself.

Luckily, we have Veronica, our full-time live-in nanny,

who will be very much helping me with the children.

She's obviously been around...

I don't want to say "for ever", that sounds a bit rude, but...

...from before Jacob was born.

When she was 21, she went to work for the Rees-Moggs.

We saw Jacob the day he was born in Queen Charlotte's Hospital.

There he was, like a little frog, all yellow...

Jacob was not a placid baby by any means.

If he squawked enough, though, somebody went to his aid.

I hated going to school. I loved being at home.

I had to go with him every day for years, not just a few weeks.

He needed me to hold his hand.

What Veronica would do, and still does with my troupe,

is say, "I'll have to go and get the wooden spoon" -

but she never did get the wooden spoon.

One of these days I might.

Are they a handful at that age?You said it. Oh.

Oh, no. Oh, ah! There it goes again.

May I have that and a chocolate eclair, please?

I'm a creature of habit.

This is what I have almost every day:

a ham-and-cheese sandwich or baguette,

and actually, what I really want is the chocolate eclair.

They are excellent,

and, actually, I think their cream buns are better than other people's,

so... You know, and they're not expensive.

- Hello. Will you be voting? PASSER-- Yeah, I will be.

Excellent. Just make sure that you don't vote for this chap.

Are you voting?PASSER-Yeah. I hope it's against this man.

It will be, yeah.Do you know which way you'll be voting?

Absolutely not voting for him. Excellent. That's great.

Did you make this yourself?

I made the framing, yes.

MP Watch is part of a national group.

We're not aligned to any specific party.

Our local group is called Mogg Watch.

What we do is we're raising awareness

of the record of our MP

on lots of issues - integrity, environmental -

and advising them to vote tactically in order to get him out.

Those people who have a superficial view of Rees-Mogg

see him as something of a comic character,

therefore they think he's unthreatening,

but almost everything he stands for is bad.

He seems to despise people who are poorer than...

Lots, almost all of us are poorer than him.

I'm really hopeful that we will have a change of government,

but here I'm really concerned that it is going to be neck-and-neck

between Labour and the Conservatives.

In Somerset we have a mansion.

It's not a mansion.

It's a sort of old country house. It's a mansion.

Welcome to Gournay Court. This is our home in Somerset,

the main family home,

and for the next few weeks, during the election,

I'll be living here full-time.

Ah, Shaun, hello. How are you? Afternoon.

Shaun has worked here for quite a few years now.

He makes our cider, he looks after the Bentley,

everything that needs to be done in a busy household.

Hello, Chelsea. How are you? I'm good. You?Very well, thank you.

I think it would be impossible to run a house that size with no help at all.

All the cleaning, all the laundry,

all the shopping, all the cooking, and all the childcare.

I don't know if there is a wonder... woman, I was about to say. Whoops.

...wonder person, maybe, who could do this,

but that person is not me.

This is Helena and my quarters.

I've always liked large beds. I think one sleeps more comfortably in a wide bed.

I will confess I sleep completely still.

I hardly move. When I'm here on my own

and get out of bed, it doesn't look as if anyone's slept in it.

I sleep as if I'm in the tomb.

My first election campaign, we would all have been here,

because the children were infants,

but this election, three children at boarding school,

three children at day school.

They need to be going to school. That means they need to be in London,

and so I'm here on my own.

Hello.Hello. How are you?

Sorry, Downton Abbey. You're going to be overcome by a tea-tray.

Now, it's always a big question, does the milk or the tea go first?

Well, with you obviously the tea goes in first.The tea, definitely,

otherwise you won't know how much milk to put in.True.

With six children,

it sometimes seems that one of them is almost always having a birthday,

but next up is Anselm.

It's his birthday on Saturday... I know it is.

...but on his birthday we are all going to Boris' birthday.

Oh, brilliant. Boris, as in Johnson.Yeah.

Is that a big birthday? Yes, it's his 60th.

So what will that involve for Anselm?

Exactly.Will you arrange a treat for him on another day?

Erm, good question.

I've done nothing about it, but it's partly because of the General Election.

That's thrown everything out.

If he wants to, I don't know, go to Five Guys on the King's Road for a burger...Exactly.

I might see what he wants to do by asking him.Exactly.

How was your day at school? My day at school was fine.

Anselm, love, it's your birthday coming up.

Yes.Anything you particularly fancy doing?

Having my own car.

I could take you somewhere for a treat. Is there anything in particular?

Maybe go-karting. Go-karting?Mmm.Cool.

- I want to go go-karting. - So do I.

Everyone wants to go go-karting.

Sounds fun.It's my birthday, so I pick who I invite.

Labour's election machine swung into action.

They are campaigning on a word we will see and hear a lot: change.

We've been campaigning across the country.

I'm yet to encounter a single person who says,

"This is great."

There's a new poll out today suggesting a 300-seat Labour majority.

How on earth can you begin to turn around the poll leads

that Labour currently has?

The only poll that matters is the one on July 4th, the General Election.

May I introduce myself, as I'm out campaigning?

Hello, I'm Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Conservative candidate.

Do you mind if I dart across your lawn?

This year's going to be difficult.

The polls are so anti-Conservative.

It is just unbelievable.

Oh, hello, sir.

But the confusing thing is that on the doorstep that's not what we're hearing.

I heard you make your own cider.

I do, yes. Would you like to taste mine?

It's me, Jacob Rees-Mogg. Nice to meet you.

Very nice to meet you.You too. Thank you so much. Bye.

Lovely reception, actually. It's been really friendly.

I've got some leaflets here that you'll be very interested to see. Ah, excellent.

Got one there from Dine, the Liberal.

What have we got from Labour?

Dan Norris.

This is the one I like, this.

He says his third reason for voting Labour

is to get rid of you.Oh, okay.

I'm here to launch my campaign.

I want to get Britain's future back.

Oh, yeah. Him again.

He's up against Dan Norris,

who was the Labour MP

from 1997 until 2010, when Jacob took the seat off him.

Apparently Dan Norris is getting lots of support

and plastering it all over social media.

He's apparently going large on "stop Rees-Mogg".

Talk about a revenge match.

Okay, let's do it.

Have you got the poo bags? Yes.

She's just had a poo, actually. I know, but she does that more than once.

Fed up with the election yet?

Dan Norris, I would say, was quite bumptious, really,

a bit Jack the lad, cock of the walk, sort of thing.

Very pleased with himself.

Oh, how are you? Say hello. How you doing?

I've gotta get a picture of you.Take a picture of Angel.

Angel's more famous.

I think it's going okay, yeah.

There's clearly a contest here, and I'm quietly confident,

but it all depends if the polls are getting it right.

Are you gonna make me sad or happy?

Happy.Thank you very much. Very kind of you. Thank you.

Grandfather was a miner, and his six brothers.

My family are mining stock too.

Everyone is sick of the Conservatives,

but most people just want to get rid of Rees-Mogg.

After 14 years, everybody's worked out what he stands for.

I think he's a really dangerous, very far-right-wing politician.

So, Shaun, what's it like here at the weekends?

Well, you've got the kids...

And... depending on if it's been cold or not,

I got fires to do,

shoes to do,

fill the cars up, set the table.

It's surprising how the day goes by,

when it don't sound much, by the time you've done this and done that.

What's it like being a Rees-Mogg?

I think - some really good things.

Sometimes you meet a lot of cool people,

like Boris and Carrie, and they're so fun.

But when I was little,

I used to get a little bit offended about things.

When it was the height of Brexit, at school you'd hear things like,

"My mummy says that your daddy hates foreigners,"

and I think when I was very little that did upset me a little bit.

Could you do number 17 for me, please?

Well done.My hand! Don't lose your hand.

There we go.

I very much hope that Jacob retains the seat,

but... it ain't looking good.

He absolutely has the fight of his political life on his hands,

and we're all very committed to trying to help him win it.

So, I've got one of my supporters. Best Father's Day present, I think.

Here to come and deliver leaflets.

I mean, that's above and beyond the call of duty, isn't it?

What do you think an MP does?

Campaigns.Ugh, politics.

What happens at a General Election?

Politicians stop lying for a bit, which is a great start.

Boring parties.

Not the parties where you drink Champagne and have a lot of fun.

Hope I'm gonna be able to count on your support.

I don't think it's gone well, Jacob.

I imagine that you guys are going to lose come 4th July,

because you've taken this lurch to the right

and Keir Starmer's come in and taken the centre ground.

I'd have liked us to lurch to the right,

but I don't think we have. I wish we had!

Nice to meet you. Thank you.

Is there any napkins actually in there?Yes. Napkin there.

They go through napkins so fast they're constantly ironed.

Do you iron Jacob's boxers as well?Yes.

He does like his boxers being ironed.Everything but socks.

Has he got any, like, active wear?

Could you see him in joggers? Oh, I don't think so.

I did ask him, when I first started, if he owned lounge pants.

I think he was horrified for me to even ask.

I had ripped jeans and he went, "Do I not pay you enough?

"You've got holes in your clothes." "It's the style."

You should have said "no". Then you might have got a pay rise.

I do like the smell of that, though, the starch.

What does it actually do? Makes it go crispier, innit?

Yeah.He likes it quite stiff, doesn't he, Jacob?

Like, some of it.Yeah.

Oh, look at you. Very posh.

Saturday evening. Black-tie night.

Kids get dressed up and we'll get into the fun of things.

Smoking jacket and all that sort of stuff.

He don't like posh food, mind.

Not a fan of vegetables or onions or anything like that.

He likes his puds,

and he will also set in the jelly and ice-cream along with the kids.

Oh, we're having something rather nice.We are, yes.Splendid.

What's for the second course?

Gammon.Anselm's favourite.

Except lasagne, but Daddy doesn't like lasagne. Oh, no. No.

I'm probably a fussier eater than any of my children.

'Cause you were the baby of four for nearly ten years.Yes.

But it's yellow food.Bananas. I can see the thinking there.

What's wrong with bananas?

You know what's wrong. They are nasty, slimy things.

Would you consider you and your family to be posh?

Erm, we have quite posh accents, so...

yeah, if we're being real, we're quite posh, yeah.

Sometimes, just for fun, I'll teach my dad slang,

and he's getting pretty good.

You're a waste-man, aren't you? Or are you a dustman?

No, a waste-man is, like... That's a bad thing.

"My old man's a dustman. He wears a dustman's cap."

A waste-man is not, like... He's not a dustman?No.

Does he collect rubbish? He IS rubbish.

So a waste-man isn't rizz.

Good afternoon, everybody. Guess who's back.

I'm coming back as leader of Reform UK.

Nationally, the high-profile Brexiteer

has put the Tories in a tail-spin

by targeting disaffected voters on the right of the party.

Our Nige very kindly putting Reform candidates everywhere.

I imagine that will have... quite an interesting, erm, impact

on the election result, mainly for the Conservatives.

Hello, sir. Sorry to disturb you.

I'm Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Conservative candidate for the election.

Just calling 'round to ask if I may count on your support on 4th July.

The problem is, Jacob,

there are too many people in the country. We've got to deal with immigration.

It'll be the first time we won't have voted Conservative.

If you're thinking of Reform...

I know you're going to tell me it's a vote for Labour.

Hope I may count on your support. Not this year.

Not this year?We don't yet know who the Reform candidate is.

If you could merge...Well, I'm keen on working with them.

It's interesting. I mean, that's two people in this street,

former Conservatives, going for Reform,

so they clearly are getting some... some momentum.

We start with breaking news.

In the last few minutes, the Prime Minister has apologised

for leaving a D-Day ceremony with other world leaders in Normandy early.

I think it's absolutely disgusting. Disgraceful.

I apologise unreservedly

and I just hope veterans and others can forgive me.

I feel that the D-Day fiasco was kind of defining.

It was one of those moments where people thought,

"This guy just can't do the job."

Sixtus, old bean, we need to start getting you in the car.

I've been off this morning, as you might expect, to see my campaign team,

but we're actually going off to Boris' 60th birthday party.

The troops are getting ready. Anselm's ready.

It's Anselm's birthday today. Anselm is all of 12.

Boys, your jackets are here.

I'm driving Boss-Man and family to Oxford

to see the... I call him the Ex-President.

The er... ex-Prime Minister.

All right, we need to go. Can we get in the car, please?

The Conservative party possibly haven't done fantastic

in recent times.

Boris had Partygate,

but I think he managed lockdown really well. He just had a slip-up.

Boris' present.

Sun hat.

Not many children will spend their 12th birthday

at the former Prime Minister's 60th birthday party, no, indeed.

So, are we invited? We can't take cameras.

As you know, Boris is very shy. He doesn't like the limelight,

and I didn't feel it was right to ask him and Carrie

for the cameras to intrude.

This is called the four-poster, which is made up for guests.

Have they had anyone like Boris staying here?

Not since I've been here, no.

Would like to meet him, actually.

I was petrified to meet Jacob for the first time.

I passed him on the stairs...

...and, yeah, went a bit rosy-faced, I think.

He's nicer than what I thought he would be.

Am I allowed to say that?

Helena likes them to be facing a certain way, and...

...plumped. Then this is the top white sheet.

Two blankets during the winter,

and then one will come off in the next couple of weeks.

This is very different to the way I make my beds at home.

I've got duvets.

We strip the beds and re-make them.

There's nine in total, so it does take all day.

So, where are we, Shaun?

I'm somewhere in Oxford.

Just dropped the boss, wife, and kids off.

Found this little lay-by not too far away.

And I'll just wait now for, erm...

...him to give me a call or a text in a couple of hours' time.

I've got my lunch.

I've got my phone, so I can watch a bit of football on it, as well.

I drove, I suppose, because it's quite a long drive.

It's a four-hour drive or so.

And he can have a little glass of wine or something if he likes.

Hello.

Yeah, on my way. I'm only a couple of minutes away.

Ah-ha. I see somebody laden with presents.

At last Anselm is gonna have some birthday presents.

Ooh, hello.Oh, a watch.

It lights up.A boogie watch.

With the younger ones, how worried are you about spoiling them too much?

We do try not to spoil them.

Erm, I guess we're all enormously, you know, lucky

and privileged, for example, to be living in a house like this.

A book.The Dark Is Rising. The Dark Is Rising.

I've made a slight mistake. I thought that was the first of the series.

It's the second, so I may hastily have to buy you the first one.

Were any of you two particularly spoilt as children?

Oh, me, completely, yes. I was completely indulged,

by Nanny and by everybody. I mean, I was the youngest.

I'm glad to say I've been indulged the rest of my life by my kind wife,

so, you know, I'm not going to complain about the good fortune I've had.

Baby Anselm is 12.

Hooray!

What was it like sharing your birthday with the former Prime Minister?

It was really fun. Boris is so nice. He's very funny.

When I was leaving, they sang Happy Birthday, which was very kind.

It was very nice of them.

How was Boris' birthday? It was great fun.

Boris was a great man. He made an excellent speech,

and I have no doubt that if he were still leader, we would not be...

at risk of potentially coming third in a General Election.

Was there a collective mood, would you say, of despondency?

No, no, no. Conservative politicians are never despondent.

How important is the Catholic faith in your family?

The Catholic Church is very important to the family.

Faith is fundamentally important.

I'm very lucky to have my own chapel.

We just had the, sort of, spare space...

...so it seemed that I dared have a chapel.

I come in and say my prayers when I'm in Somerset.

I really am very lucky,

particularly, that many priests are willing to come and say Mass here,

so we have Mass said really quite regularly.

Oops.

Nothing like being knocked out by the incense.

Knocked "incense-sible", you might say.

Alan, hello.

Thank you so much for coming.

Pleasure.Much appreciated. And this is Deacon.

Hello. Hello, Deacon.

Shall I take you into the chapel straight away?Yes.

And then we'll have a look.

How wonderful. It's a really splendid chapel,

certainly a lot more splendid than I was expecting.Oh, excellent.

I have got a... a reliquary.

Actually, in the monstrance, I have what I think is my best relic.

This is from the hair shirt of the blessed Thomas More.Ah.

This is a bit of thorn from the crown of thorns.Lovely.

And over here is a small relic of St Peter the Apostle.

There we are. I knew I had one somewhere.

I've been interested in them as long as I've known about them.

You're not strictly meant to buy them, because it's simony,

but you can buy the containers, but not the relics.

The relics belong to the Church.Yes.

Ring the bell three times, please.

I am stunningly lucky

to be able to do this not just for me

but for the faith of my children.

Would you have liked a career in the Church?

I never had a vocation. I think a vocation is a huge blessing.

And though I recognise the teaching of the Church

as Truth, with a capital T,

I can't say I always live up to it.

"Domine, non sum dignus."

What does that mean? "Lord, I am not worthy."

My mother, Lady Rees-Mogg, lives very near us in Somerset

and is still going strong in her middle eighties.

LADY REES- Have you read the papers today?

Most of them, yes. Not very encouraging polls.

It's rather sweet, I thought, that Rishi spoke about his religion.

I thought that was rather good. Yes. Yes.

Well, it's clearly important to him. Yeah, it is, obviously.

They also say Keir...Sir Keir? ...is an atheist, which I didn't know.

It was What's-his-name who said "We don't do God".

Alistair Campbell, yeah, yeah.

Hello. Erm, shall we go through to lunch?

Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher,

are you going to come out from your hideaway?

Is that your handbag? Ah. There you go.

Pope Pius X, in 1910, decreed

that children should take their first Communion at seven.

That's the age when a child knows the difference from right to wrong

and can be held responsible for their sin.

And so, to prepare them for their Holy Communion,

we have the catechism at Sunday lunch.

Sixtus, your favourite thing.

What is the sacrament of the Eucharist?

All those children today, what were they having?

Poo-poo. No, don't be silly.

What were they having?I don't know.

Yes, you do. Come on. I'm sorry.No, no.

You're going to have to do this to have your first Communion.

So, what were they having today? Their first...

Blood of Christ.That's right.

The fourth Commandment, "Honour thy mother and thy father",

requires parents to educate their children in the Catholic faith.

It is a responsibility I take seriously,

though, it has to be said,

the children are sometimes less enthusiastic than I might like.

When are the bread and wine changed into the body and blood of Christ?

When the priest feels like it.

You mean at the moment of consecration?

I do not even know what that means.

That's cannibalism. Is it cannibalism?

Yes, because you're eating someone's body.

That's what the ancient Romans thought.

I'm going out to get some graffiti.

Some dimwit thought they'd write some rubbish on the sign

outside Jacob's mum's house.

That's the last thing she wants to see, innit, from some delinquent?

They can spell that.

I had my, erm, poster defaced.

What does it say now? It's got rather vulgar words on it.

They must have had to clamber up. Either they were tall or...

There's an angry socialist giant - he'll be very easy to spot -

who has a very vulgar knowledge of language.

That was a waste of time, putting that on, weren't it?

What should they have used, Shaun?

I don't know. Permanent marker, I'd have got that off easy.

Paint?Paint? No, I'd have got that off as well.

As I say, it's a waste of time putting stuff on there.

Best thing to have done is took it down and smashed it up.

Saves us all a problem.

Live from London, this is BBC News.

Labour has called for an investigation

into what it calls a growing scandal over alleged betting

from people linked to the Conservative party and Downing Street.

Some people went into a room in No.10 Downing Street,

were told the date of the election.

It seems that they then went and placed a bet on that,

knowing the outcome. That is quite outrageous.

Tory betting scandal, has it made you think any different of them?

Yes. I have always voted Tory. I'm not voting for them this year.

I think it just proves again that they're corrupt.

Put them in the stocks and we'll throw cabbages at them.

How are you feeling

about the potential outcome of this election?

Yes, well, I'm... certainly not feeling optimistic

about the Conservatives' prospects...

...erm, at all.

Erm, moving on to Jacob,

obviously we very much hope that Jacob can keep the seat.

I mean, "hopeful" would be accurate.

"Optimistic" would be seriously pushing it.

You look at the newspapers... Yeah. Mostly the sport, but...

...so you probably know that the Conservatives are not on course to win.

Didn't want this to be a horrible surprise

on the morning of Friday 5th, so...

The Conservatives, we seem to have gone from tragedy to farce, basically.

I'm actually much more concerned

with what's going to happen in North East Somerset and Hanham...

...because Daddy's majority... ...was, like, 16,000?

And in normal times,

a Conservative majority of sixteen thousand and something, you're laughing,

but these are not normal times.

Almost all the polls show a Labour gain from Conservative.

So...

Other careers are available.

I've never, ever even heard of anyone losing their job,

let alone someone in our family doing it.

Well, at least we don't lose our house,

so we're lucky on that front,

but let's hope it's not a massive humiliation. We'll have to take it on the chin.

We're just off to the discussion on the election.

Dan Norris and I will be the ones who are being interviewed tonight.

The first hustings I took part in at the 2010 election,

it was a very different tone.

So, at that point we were asked

if we could say something nice about the other candidates,

and Dan said, "No, I can't think of anything nice to say about him,"

which was very funny,

and made for a certain atmosphere in the hustings.

Stand by.Well, tonight on a muggy summer's evening,

it's the venue for our debate.

We'll be chatting with one of the most controversial characters in politics, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg,

and Mayor for the West of England Dan Norris,

who lost this seat to him.

I think that's understating it, "one of the most controversial characters".

I'm hardly controversial at all.

Is there anything particularly difficult I could ask you tonight...

...that would throw you?

I was hoping it was going to be one of those 1950s-style interviews.

What, like you do on GB News?

Absolutely, yes. Ask me why they're doing such a wonderful job.

The election campaign for the Conservatives,

would you agree that it's gone from bad to worse,

and now the betting allegations

are just, sort of, the icing on the cake?

Look, the betting allegations are appalling,

but this is one or two people who have behaved badly.

Do you agree, Dan Norris? What I'd simply say is

I think integrity and honesty has become the main issue now for the electorate.

On top of Partygate, the PPE spending that is dubious as well...

A whole range of things made people question the Tory government.

The betting thing is just unbelievable.

Do you find it embarrassing for your campaign?

It's always unfortunate when people do things that they shouldn't.

It's one of those things that is difficult about politics

that things over which you have no control go wrong.

This is, in my view, the most important General Election in a generation.

I think people have lost a lot of faith in politics.

I think the Conservatives are really culpable in that.

They've really undermined people's confidence.

There's new surprises almost every day,

so who knows what's going to happen tomorrow,

what banana skins there might be to slip on?

I feel in a terrible state of undress.

Please vote Conservative today.

The Tory party could be heading to extinction.

Eleven Cabinet ministers are facing losing their seat.

Vote Conservative!

That's a pretty clear margin.

Ladies and gentlemen, as always with British politics,

prepare for chaos.