Rees-Mogg laughs off abuse from protesters

TORY Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg has brushed off a protest by anarchist demonstrators who harangued him and his young children outside his London home.

Video footage posted online by Class War shows veteran protester Ian Bone telling one of the MP’s sons: “Your daddy’s a totally horrible person, lots of people don’t like your daddy, do you know that?”

Downing Street condemned the protesters’ actions, describing them as “completely unacceptable”.

“No elected member or their family should be subjected to intimidation or abuse in that way,” the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said.

However, the MP sought to play down the incident, insisting his children were “absolutely fine”, despite the barracking.

“I wouldn’t get too excited about it. It was a few anarchists who turned up and it wasn’t very well or-

Barracked: Jacob Rees-Moog

ganised. It wasn’t terribly serious,” he told LBC radio.

The online footage shows a small group of protesters confronting Mr Rees-Mogg and his wife and four of their six children on the pavement outside their London home, while a policeman looks on.

Mr Bone is seen taunting them, accusing them of failing to pay the family’s nanny, Veronica Crook, properly.