It’s Jacob Rees-Mogg’s very own little angel

TORY warhorse Ann Widdecombe is playing a bossy Chinese empress in Aladdin, in Lowestoft, Suffolk. But fans hoping for a reprise of her Strictly samba in 2010, when the ex-MP stunned judges by cavorting in canary-yellow feathers, will be disappointed. A cast member tells me: ‘We had to write her out of a lot of scenes when it became patently obvious that she can neither sing nor dance — which are rather important elements of pantomime! Whatever she did learn on Strictly, she’s clearly forgotten.’ RESISTING the temptation to rest on his laurels after being hailed as a ‘sex god’ by I’m A Celebrity winner Georgia ‘Toff’ Toffolo, Jacob Rees-Mogg MP has posted this snap on Instagram of his five-year-old son Anselm dressed up as an angel, with legendary family nanny Veronica Cook looking on smiling.

‘Mogg-umentally fabulous,’ writes one of the devout Brexiteer’s admirers.

Mogg supplies the caption: ‘Non Angli, sed Angeli’ — ‘Not Angles, but angels’ — uttered by Pope Gregory the Great after seeing Anglo Saxon boys being brutalised in a Roman slave market.