Jacob Rees-Mogg urges tower blocks to be replaced by houses amid Grenfell Tower
Jacob Rees-Mogg has called on the Government to tear down tower blocks
The Old Etonian urged Theresa May to deliver what the people want as he called out the Government for being “wrong” on high-rise buildings.
Mr Rees-Mogg spoke of Grenfell Tower, where a devastating fire claimed the lives of at least 80 people, as he brushed off claims he was making a bid for Mrs May’s job job.
Writing for the Daily Telegraph, the popular backbencher described tower blocks as the “physical embodiment of socialism”.
He wrote: “The Grenfell Tower was not created because people chose to live in tower blocks, not because, from the Second World War onward, officialdom wanted tower blocks - despite opinion surveys consistently showing that the overwhelmingly majority of people want to live in houses with gardens.