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And over on LBC, Jacob Rees-Mogg rebuked Sadiq Khan for going “swanning off around the world”, branding the move “tough on taxpayers”.
The Brexit opportunities minister questioned who was paying for the Mayor of London to travel to the US on a tour where he praised the “high standards” of legalised cannabis farms.
He said:
Who’s paying for his fare? Is that a good use of taxpayers’ money?”
“The precept for the GLA [Greater London Authority] goes up and up and he goes swanning off around the world. It’s all hunky dory for him but it’s a bit tough on taxpayers.”
I think it [the EU] wants to make the UK feel bad about having left the European Union and that underpins its whole policy and it doesn’t really mind about the consequences of that
“And we just have to get on with life and recognise that we have left. We have to make our own way. We are an independent country, and what the EU wants and thinks is secondary
