Mark Andrews: Why both Jacob and Labour have it wrong about tackling an ageing population
Jacob Rees-Mogg reckons Britain will be heading for financial disaster unless people start having more children.
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While our new government scares us witless with talk about financial 'black holes', and cutting pensioners' winter fuel payments to fund footballer-style pay rise for train drivers, Jake reckons the key to everlasting prosperity is to start breeding like rabbits which have overdosed on Viagra. And I suppose, put like that, Jacob's policy does sound more fun than Rachel Reeves' vision for the economy.
I suppose that is what you would expect to hear from a father of six, who probably still has a few more fruitful years ahead of him. Indeed, if his theory were correct, I suppose you could say that he and father-of -eight Boris Johnson have more than fulfilled their patriotic duties.
The trouble is that it itsn't. Mr Rees-Mogg reckons the biggest........
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