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Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg today admitted he had never been to Ikea.

The Conservative traditionalist also stressed he had “no ambitions” of shopping in the mega-store which has branches in Croydon, Brent and Edmonton.

The North East Somerset MP was asked about Ikea after its founder Ingvar Kamprad died at the age of 91 at the weekend.

He turned a small-scale mail order business started on his family’s farm into a furniture empire by letting customers piece together his simple and inexpensive furniture themselves.

But such an activity clearly does not appeal to Eton-educated Mr Rees-Mogg.

Asked on Talk Radio, he replied: “I have never been to Ikea, no.”

Pressed on whether he had any intention of ever going, he added: “I have no ambitions in that direction.

“Everything I have heard makes it sound enormously difficult and then when you get something you have to try and put it together

“That isn’t an area in which my skills lie.”

However, fellow Tory Chris Philp, MP for Croydon South, invited him to experience Ikea shopping.

“I would be very happy to take Jacob around Ikeain Purley Way any time he likes - I might even help him put the furniture together,” he said.

“Pretty much the entire contents of my house were purchased at IKEA and assembled myself.

“I’m sure Jacob would be a hit with the shoppers in IKEA.”

Ealing North Labour MP Steve Pound, though, quipped: “The Tory Party are quite good at collapsing Cabinets at the moment.

“You would have thought there would be a need for someone who could put it all together.

“Doubtless, Jacob’s under-butler would be up to the job.”

Mr Rees-Mogg has previously said that he makes “no pretence to be a modern man”, admitting to have never changed a nappy for his six children, to cooking or washing up, but he can change a light bulb.

Tory grandee Alan Clark once belittled his Conservative colleague Michael Heseltine as a man who “bought all his own furniture”.