From the archives: Student newspaper report on Jacob Rees-Mogg’s arrival at Oxford

Oxford University student newspaper Cherwell reported on Jacob Rees-Mogg’s arrival at Oxford in the late 1980s:

“Jacob is one of the new breed of ‘serious’ students intent upon the maintenance of good old fashioned values and standards.”

“Whilst at Eton, Jacob maintained his decent and respectable status by employing other students to clean his shoes, or to hold an umbrella over him whilst running in the under fourteens.”