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• Tory MP was referring to the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
• This was the name for the north African country of Libya under Colonel Gaddafi
• Desperate Labour MPs accused him of insensitivity for making the remark at fringe event

Leading Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg last night called an African country 'the people's republic of jam jar or something' at a packed meeting of the Tory Party conference.

The Conservative MP was referring to the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, which was the name of Libya under its late leader Colonel Gaddafi.

He was warning against the perils of a second Brexit referendum - dubbed a 'people's vote - and said anything with the title people's in it has the whiff of totalitarianism.

He said: 'All the countries who are least interested in their people call themselves "people's", don't they?

'So the People's Republic of China? Oh, that's communist.

'And the People's Republic of…jam jar, or something like that, of Libya, was what it was called when Colonel Gaddafi was in charge.'



He made the remark while addressing a packed-out fringe meting hosted by Brexit Central at the conference in Birmingham last night.

Around 500 party activists flooded into the hall to listen to Mr Rees-Mogg and several other Tory MPs rail against Theresa May'a Brexit Chequers plan.

But Mr Rees-Mogg has been criticised for making the remark at the meeting - with Labour MPs accusing him of insensitivity.

Alex Sobel, a Labour MP and Remain activist with the Best for Britain group, took aim at the MP for North East Somerset.

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