Former Tory minister defends UK decision to enter war in podcast with US rightwinger and Putin sympathiser

The former Tory minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has found himself defending Britain’s decision to fight against Adolf Hitler after inviting the US rightwinger and Vladimir Putin sympathiser Tucker Carlson into his home for an interview.

During the encounter, Carlson repeatedly suggested the west was to blame for inviting aggression from Russia and said of the prospect that Britain could have lost to Hitler: “Who cares?”

Rees-Mogg, who lost his parliamentary seat in 2024, appears to have agreed to host Carlson’s podcast show after carving out a post-politics career as a commentator.

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    3 days ago

    I think it’s time we stopped teaching the Nazis as great villains and start portraying them for what they were: loosers who somehow took power in a major country and proceeded to fuck up the entire world.

    “Nazis are evil” doesn’t dissuade enough people and it attracts some. I think we should try Nazis are incompetent fools who never ever get pussy. Let Matt Walsh and Tucker Carlson try to rehabilitate that.