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“We had to move to a bigger room,” Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg claimed. “There are some left.” This would have made sense if the Emmanuel Centre in Westminster was heaving. However, with less than half the room full, you’d be forgiven for feeling a sense of despair at the state of the Tory Party. Rows of the auditorium were sectioned off, with remaining attendees sparsely spread out along long church-like benches. Excluding ex-Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who was beamed in from Washington, not a single speaker currently sits in the House of Commons. Rees-Mogg was ousted in North East Somerset & Ha…

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