Jacob Rees-Mogg, 50, revealed he banned staff from using 'New Labour words' such as 'unacceptable' in a style guide for writing letters because they don't mean anything
The new Leader of the House of Commons has revealed he banned staff from using 'New Labour words' such as 'unacceptable' because they don't mean anything.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, 50, said that staff asked how he liked his letters to be done when he entered his role in Boris Johnson's government this week, reports the Telegraph.
The MP for North East Somerset then offered to bring a 'style guide' of words which he had used in his previous office to help them.
On the list obtained by ITV News Mr Rees-Mogg calls for accuracy and discourages the use of words such as 'hopefully' and 'disappointment'.
Mr Rees-Mogg said: 'I had it brought down from my House of Commons office. It's just a thing listing banned words, which are sort of New Labour words like 'unacceptable'.
'If you mean something's wrong, say it's wrong... A sort of style guide. And people must be correctly addressed. I always put esquire to a male constituent.'
Other directions on the style guide include a call for a double space after full stops and no comma after the word 'and'.
Mr Rees-Mogg has also demanded phrases such as 'pleased to learn' and 'no longer fit for purpose' are dropped from staff's vocabulary.
On Thursday Mr Rees-Mogg, pictured, made his first speech in his new role. He also said that he wouldn't 'overstate my influence or closeness' with the new Prime Minister Boris Johnson
Asked on his LBC show about the ban on certain words, Mr Rees-Mogg said: 'These are for my letters. This list was drawn up by my staff.
'And when you read through a letter you see something that says "it was very important", but, probably not actually, it's probably just important.
''Unacceptable' is a dreadful, weasel word. Such an ugly word. It is used when people mean 'wrong' but they don't have the courage to say so.
'The use of the words is to hide meaning rather than to elucidate meaning, and, therefore you should use words that elucidate meaning.'
Mr Rees-Mogg made his first speech in his new role at the House of Commons on Thursday but he told the Telegraph 'I don’t really do nerves in the House.'
The father-of-six also revealed that he didn't stay for long at Downing Street after he was appointed on Wednesday night, instead just staying for a 'quick chat.'
Mr Rees-Mogg said: 'I have supported Boris for a long time. I think enormously highly of him but he’s the Prime Minister. He has advisers. I wouldn’t overstate my influence or closeness.'
The new Leader of the House of Commons, pictured, also said that people must be correctly addressed and that he would 'always put esquire to a male constituent' when writing to them
Since becoming Leader of the House of Commons Mr Rees-Mogg has stepped down from his role at Somerset Capital Management.
Mr Rees-Mogg also said he was no longer being paid to present the LBC phone-in programme because he had become a Government minister.
He first entered Parliament in 2010. A stickler for formal dress and tradition, many observers wryly note that he appears to come from another time.
A devout Roman Catholic, the Tory MP called his sixth child Sixtus – the name shared with five Popes.
His other children’s full names include Alfred Wulfric Leyson Pius, Thomas Wentworth Somerset Dunstan, Peter Theodore Alphege and Anselm Charles Fitzwilliam.
Despite his growing family, the Oxford-educated MP has admitted to never changing a nappy – because he is not a ‘modern man’, adding: ‘The nanny does it brilliantly.’
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