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In a video tweeted by the Bath Labour Party, the Tory candidate is seen out canvassing, wearing a blue rosette.

The clip was said to be filmed in Monkton Combe, a village in north Somerset, on Sunday.

According to the party, he briefly appeared to speak to voters, only to ‘immediately run for cover’ when he was grilled on damaging comments he previously made about the victims of the Grenfell atrocity.

In the video, filmed by Carl Mungai, Mr Rees-Mogg is asked: ‘On the Grenfell thing, do you feel ashamed?’


The Old Etonian looks down at the ground before fiddling with a Conservative leaflet in his pocket and saying: ‘I’m just here to canvass for the election. Let me leave you with one of my cards.’



He then briskly walks away while muttering ‘it’s lovely to see you’.

Jacob Rees-Mogg didn’t stick around for long (Picture: BathLabourParty)

The man filming shouts after him: ‘No, no, no, stay, we’ve got other things to ask you. Jacob!’

Mr Rees-Mogg has been suspiciously missing in action for almost the entirety of the Conservatives election campaign so far, including from the launch of the Tory manifesto.

The leader of the House was expected to sit alongside his cabinet colleagues during the launch in Telford at the end of November but was nowhere to be seen.

He has been updating his own Instagram page but has rarely been visible in public since he made the ‘shameful’ comments about the Grenfell Tower fire almost one month ago.

He caused outrage when he suggested the victims should have used ‘common sense’ and ignored fire service guidance not to leave the burning building.

In an LBC radio interview, he discussed the London Fire Brigade’s (LFB) ‘stay-put’ policy and said: ‘If you just ignore what you’re told and leave you are so much safer.

‘I think if either of us were in a fire, whatever the fire brigade said, we would leave the burning building.

‘It just seems the common sense thing to do, and it is such a tragedy that that didn’t happen.’

Grenfell United said his words were ‘extremely painful and insulting to bereaved families’.

Mr Rees-Mogg later issued a ‘profound’ apology and said: ‘I would hate to upset the people of Grenfell if I was unclear in my comments.

‘With hindsight and after reading the report no one would follow that advice. That’s the great tragedy.’

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