Website demands retraction from leader of the Commons who called editor ‘a knave or a fool’
Downing Street has declined to offer evidence for Jacob Rees-Mogg’s claim that a journalist was “either a knave or a fool” and deliberately distorted comments by another minister, but is standing by the allegation.
While Boris Johnson’s spokesperson said Rees-Mogg’s words were “not comments that the PM would have made” the decision to stand by the leader of the Commons risks escalating a furious row with the media.
