No wonder Tories adore Rees-Mogg

Jacob Rees-Mogg came top in a poll of Conservative voters asked who they would like to see as their next leader. Forcing some to ask how much of a no-mark do you have to be to come bottom of it?

But you can see why many Tories believe this man’s time has come. Because he captures their version of the zeitgeist. After all, he opposes gay marriage and abortion, even if a woman has been raped, and has never changed a nappy because he believes ownership of a penis bars you from that job.

He’s voted for cutting welfare and disability payments, the Bedroom Tax, restricting legal aid, anti-climate change measures and raising tuition fees.

He’s voted against moves to improve safety in tower blocks, regulate landlords, tax bankers’ bonuses, cut Corporation Tax, and virtually every move to bolster human rights and equality.

So as we withdraw into our postBrexit 19th-century Splendid Isolation shell and workers suffer the slowest wage growth since the 1800s, who better to lead us than a man who talks in Latin, calls his kids after 13th-century popes and wears a disdainful look that suggests he’s about to deduct a farthing from the pay of an eight-year-old chimney sweep for leaving soot on his drawing-room chaise longue.

All hail the Man of His Time.