Jacob Rees-Mogg recites national anthem in House of Commons
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During questions in Parliament, Leader of the House of Commons, Mr Rees-Mogg was asked to agree to a debate on the monarchy in the UK following Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s interview with Oprah Winfrey. The interview has sparked a crisis within the Royal Family and raised questions about the future of the monarchy.
Conservative MP Sir David Amess reiterated his support for the Queen following the fallout after the interview and asked if there was time for a debate on the monarchy.
Mr Amess said: “Will (Mr Rees-Mogg) find time for a debate on the role of the monarchy?
“During such a debate, I’d very much hope that the argument could be made that it is never wise for a family dispute to be aired in public with everyone getting damaged and hurt by the fallout.
“Perhaps during such a debate, we could celebrate the fact that we’re so blessed to have had our monarch for 70 years compared to the alternative of having a president as our head of state, which we very nearly had under Tony Blair.”
However, Mr Rees-Mogg delivered the brutal jibe and recited the national anthem in response.
He replied: “Were we to have a debate to praise of sovereign lady, it would take up all the legislative time available in this House.
“So all I say is; ‘God save our gracious Queen, long live our noble Queen, God save the Queen, send her victorious, happy and glorious, long to reign over us, God save the Queen, O Lord our God arise, scatter her enemies and let them fall, frustrate their knavish tricks, confound their politics, on thee our hopes we fix, God save us all’.”
Mr Blair’s relationship with the Royal Family was tarnished following his premiership after he published his autobiography, A Journey.
The book, published sixteen years ago, contained some of the private conversations he had with the monarch and sparked a furious reaction.
Last year, senior courtiers told the Telegraph there was a “profound sense of disappointment” in Mr Blair for betraying the Queen’s trust.
One said: “Her Majesty has to be able to talk to her chief minister in confidence, without any sense of trepidation that her words might someday be retailed in a cheap and cheerful volume of memoirs.
“No Prime Minister before has ever done this and we can only hope that it will never happen again.”
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In the book, Mr Blair revealed a discussion he had with the Queen at Balmoral after the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales.
He claimed Her Majesty had told him that lessons had to be learnt from the way things had been handled after her death.
He claimed that at their first meeting, the Queen had told him: “You are my tenth prime minister.
“The first was Winston.
“That was before you were born.”
According to reports back in 2010, Prince William also felt betrayed by Mr Blair’s autobiography as it featured private conversations with the Prince and former Prime Minister.
Mr Blair claimed in his book that the future King hated the “prison walls” of his destiny.
He wrote: “He knew now, if he didn’t before, what being a prince and a king meant.
“For all the sense of duty, the prison walls of hereditary tradition must have seemed too high a price to pay.”
Mr Blair went on to say that the Duke of Cambridge was angry at being made to play a public role while he was grieving for his mum.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge did not invite Mr Blair to their 2011 royal wedding, despite it being a “semi-state” occasion.
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