Do we like them?

Do we like Jacob Rees-Mogg?

Our score: 3 out of 10. His stated opposition to marriage equality and his push to scrap net zero are real harm, and the good we could verify is thin.

These days Rees-Mogg is more media fixture than minister. He writes weekly GB News columns, and in early 2026 he told Keir Starmer to go, commented on Robert Jenrick's defection to Reform UK, and backed Richard Tice's call to ditch net zero. Nothing big and new has landed lately, just the usual weekly sermon from the right.

The thing that matters most for this page is marriage and abortion. PinkNews reported in 2017 that he said he was against marriage equality and against abortion in any circumstance. He frames it as Catholic teaching and as matters for free votes, and his defenders say faith-based conviction deserves respect. Faith alone doesn't fail anyone here, but he has taken those positions into public life and kept them there.

Then there's Grenfell. In November 2019 he said on LBC that ignoring fire brigade advice would have been the common sense thing to do. Jeremy Corbyn called the remarks crass and insensitive, and the rapper Stormzy called for his resignation. He apologised the next day, writing that he “profoundly apologise[d]”. Fair enough that he said sorry quickly, though critics noted that it followed the backlash.

On the planet, his 2026 column backed Richard Tice's call to ditch net zero in favour of free markets and deregulation. He has been arguing for scrapping or delaying climate policy for years on GB News, so this is a long-running pattern, not a one-off. Where you land depends on whether you see it as cost-of-living pragmatism or as walking away from the one thing we can't afford to ignore. Our test says the second.

The good-person side is mixed. In 2020 he said UNICEF should be ashamed of playing politics after it launched a campaign to feed UK children during the pandemic, which prompted a strong backlash. Against that, he publicly thanked the founders of the hygiene-poverty charity Beauty Banks in Parliament. That's honestly about all the real good we could verify.

So: a courteous, well-spoken bloke who is quick to apologise when the room turns on him, and who has stuck to positions that hurt LGBTQ+ people and the climate for years. We couldn't open many original pages for this card, so treat the detail as headline-level. The harm is clear enough on what he has said himself.