The MP for the 18th century

An excerpt from an article by Andrew Rawnsley in today's guardian.

Clever on two counts.

So we have the Democratic Unionists, a party of just 10 MPs, and one incapable of forming a government in their own relatively small corner of the United Kingdom, talking about their “blood-red lines” and threatening to tear down the temple if they don’t get exactly what they want. 

Or consider Jacob Rees-Mogg. Were it not for the combination of Brexit and a majority-less prime minister, the MP for the 18th century would be little more than a comedic throwback, not the mouthpiece of a cabal dictating demands to the prime minister that cramp her ability to manoeuvre into a viable position.