Rees-Mogg says BBC broke impartiality rules by suggesting mini-budget caused market turmoil

The business secretary, Jacob Rees-Mogg, has accused the BBC of breaching its duty of impartiality by linking the drop in the pound and instability in pension funds to Kwasi Kwarteng's mini-budget.

'You suggest something is causal, which is a speculation,' Rees-Mogg said. 'What has caused the effect in pension funds … is not necessarily the mini-budget. I think jumping to conclusions about causality is not meeting the BBC requirement for impartiality'.

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Jacob Rees-Mogg says pensions not at risk as he hits out at BBC ►

[andreasstavrinides]

It wasn't speculation - sterling started dropping almost immediately after the chancellor stopped speaking. No one in the world other than Rees Mogg thinks this breaks impartiality rules.

[Stupoider]

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

[scousertommy]

How does anyone take anything this man says seriously???
He is & has been, since he entered politics, detached from reality.
He’s a 53 year old man who still has a nanny. Say no more!!!

[johnlager]

Telling an obvious Truth is not impartial ? He is just trying to shutdown the truth

[Treblaine]

"They broke impartiality rules by suggesting the molotov cocktails i threw into those houses had anything to do with the resultant house fires which were completely coincidental"

[steverichmond]

This is a joke. Think about what he's saying.... the mini (MAJOR) budget had nothing to do with the fact that the pound

[TheStarBlack]

To Tories, impartiality means "dont criticise us".

[desmneylon]

RM wheeled out to blame one of the usual long list of suspects. Anybody in fact so long as it not the real culprit- the Tories government

[niel]

If speaking facts is breaking impartiality, then we are in a sorry state.

[grahamturner]

The Tories don't like the truth. Shocker. 🙄

[fredscratchet]

What a load of twaddle. Rumours don't break markets, actions do like unfunded budgets!😡

[wonkygustav]

Not really, they just reported a fact, which is their job.

[dkmphotography_co_uk]

So telling the truth & presenting the indisputable facts to this Government is "breaking impartiality rules"??

Will everyone STOP giving promoting this incompetent haunted pencil into roles he is so clearly too inept to handle (i.e. anything that doesn't involve nanny holding his hand seemingly).
And STOP giving him air time FFS.

[MattJones-kiwh]

This is factually incorrect. As the Chancellor made his speech, each new announcement saw a drop in the pound. You can track the value of the pound against time and compare it to when the major announcements were made and it lines up perfectly. The other 'not so fact' that Mogg made here is that pensions were using Government bonds as a high risk investment strategy when the opposite is true.

[andrescannell]

Rees-Mogg is George Orwell's Newspeak (1984) in human form, well, nearly human form; a pencil in an ill fitting suit?

[davemould]

If JRM cannot see such obvious causality, perhaps that's why he has so many children?

[trulymental]

So now the truth is a lie.
Nice one Mr Smogg gaslighting, the tory way.

[matthewgoodsell]

It is not 'a commentary' or speculative, but a statement of the blindingly obvious; by trying to deny the mini-budget caused this current market upheaval, Rees-Mogg is insulting our intelligence.

[carlboardman]

The clock is ticking for him and his wealthy cronies. However, I fear the damage that has been done will indeed be irreversible.