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North-East Somerset MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has been causing quite a stir on social media of late.

His recent arrival on Instagram with photos of his immaculately dressed ‘minimogg’ children have attracted a huge number of comments and followers.

Pictures of Mr Rees-Mogg and his identically-dressed son buying a cake at Priston Fete lit up the internet, while the old Etonian, renowned for his clipped vowels and liking for obscure and ostentatious words, recently took to Instagram to announce the birth of his sixth son Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher Rees-Mogg.

His unlikely eruption onto social media (someone has started a #MoggMentum account on Twitter) has caused some to question whether he could be next in line for the leadership of the Tory Party.

With Theresa May facing a crisis of confidence from Conservatives after losing the party its majority at last month's general election, her popularity has taken a hit. If Tory grandees are casting around for a new fresh face to fill the top job, perhaps they need look no further than Mr Rees-Mogg?

With his new found social media fame, the pro-Brexit multi-millionaire is being hailed as the Jeremy Corbyn of the Tory party, able to connect with the traditionally hard-to-reach youth via a strong internet presence. Could he be the saviour the Tory Party has been searching for?

The bookies seem to like him for it – the backbencher’s unlikely rise to internet stardom has come with an accompanying fall in the odds against him becoming the next Prime Minister.

Paddy Power currently has him listed as 10/1 behind Boris Johnson and Philip Hammond at 6/1, with David Davis as the current front runner at 3/1.

Consider that on July 1, the MP for North East Somerset was seen as a 50/1 shot and it clearly has been quite a leap forward for Mr Rees-Mogg's political kudos.

Are 34,000 Instagram followers enough to get Rees-Mogg from the back benches to the top job? Only time will tell.