To young Peter Rees-Mogg, it probably just seemed like a day out with his father. It was simply ‘How do you get six children back to London?’ as Mogg explained on his biweekly radio show several days later, expanding on why he had…

I’m fond of Jacob Rees-Mogg. I’ll happily admit it. The guy’s a treasure. Double-breasted suits, his quadruple named children, the way he managed to smash David Dimbleby’s Eton taunt without breaking a sweat, the fact he winds up Paul Merton…