Jacob Rees-Mogg can return to Parliament at possible by-election – but only as a Reform UK candidate says
Former Conservative Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg could return to Parliament in a possible by-election North Somerset for Reform UK "if he sees the light", one of the party’s leading figures has said.
Arron Banks – who was dubbed one of the "bad boys of Brexit" after he helped to fund one Nigel Farage’s Brexit campaign at the 2016 European Union referendum – also said that Farage had a 2/1 chance of being Prime Minister after the next general election.
There is speculation in Westminster that a by-election could be eventually be held in North East Somerset and Hanham after the sitting MP Dan Norris was arrested on suspicion of rape and child sex offences in April. Norris, who has not been charged, was immediately suspended from the Labour Party.
Norris represented the seat from 1997 until 2010 when he was unseated by Conservative Jacob Rees-Mogg. He won his seat back at last year’s general election from Rees-Mogg, with a majority of 5,319, with Reform in third.
There has been speculation that Rees-Mogg – a presenter on GB News – could jump ship and fight the seat as a Reform UK candidate, although senior Tories have told GB News that they consider this to be unlikely.
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