"I wonder whether my hon. Friend has given any consideration to the design of such signs and how it might be made clear to people that they are in a peddling or non-peddling zone...." Jacob Rees-Mogg - View Speech
"I am grateful to my hon. Friend, as I was getting very worried about this constitutional principle. It is surely up to this House and not up to individual promoters or local councils, to decide what passes into law...." Jacob Rees-Mogg - View Speech
"Is it not very reassuring that the upper House has carried out its traditional role of defending the liberty of the subject from the seizure of goods? Such seizure has been unknown and unwelcome in this country since Magna Carta...." Jacob Rees-Mogg - View Speech
"Will my hon. Friend explain why that applies to people domiciled in England, but the Bill would have effect in England and Wales?..." Jacob Rees-Mogg - View Speech
"But does that mean that a Welshman who applied to Oxford could be admitted not on merit, but an Englishman who applied would have to be admitted exclusively on merit?..." Jacob Rees-Mogg - View Speech
"I am an enormous admirer of my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Mr Chope), who usually speaks the greatest sense in the House. I often find myself in agreement with him but, on this occasion, I am sorry to say that I do not.
"The Minister makes an absolutely brilliant point. The prestige of universities ought to be great. In fact, it should be very difficult to get into the best universities because they provide such opportunities and a career path for the ablest in our society.
"It is very depressing when we get to a state at which there is a bit of legislation that we do not like, about which we have doubts and that we think ought to be changed, and yet instead of arguing to get rid of that legislation we say that …..." Jacob Rees-Mogg - View Speech
"I think the Bill should have said that in the first place. I am even more suspicious of the new Labour approach of a Bill that says one thing initially and then does something completely different...." Jacob Rees-Mogg - View Speech
"I stand corrected, but I am not quite sure that I can go along with that monstrous slur on our coalition partners.
We must have Bills that do what they say, not ones that set off in one direction, hare off in another in Committee, and then say something that …..." Jacob Rees-Mogg - View Speech