LONDON: The sight of hardline
Brexit backer
Jacob Rees-Mogg stretching out across the front bench of Britain's parliament during a particularly heated debate has become an instant meme.
With his tiny round glasses pointing at the ceiling and wearing a double-breasted suit, Rees-Mogg appeared to be taking a rest in the crucial final minutes before a crunch
Brexit vote on Tuesday. It came after PM
Boris Johnson's government had lost its working majority in parliament and was about to be dealt its first painful defeat over the terms on which Britain should leave the
EU.
One
Twitter user posted a graph showing the government's slipping majority since 2017. It traced the contour's of the aristocratically dressed Rees-Mogg. Another quipped, "He's only sitting like this because he has no backbone whatsoever."