Jacob Rees-Mogg

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The Munk Debates Podcast · Be it Resolved, liberalism gets the big questions right · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

If we look at how the world has grown more prosperous, in our countries and in others, it is because of free markets and liberal economics.

That was superb.

Well, thank you, Mr Chairman.

Ladies and gentlemen, all politicians always say what a pleasure it is to be wherever they're speaking.

But on this occasion, it's true because Roy Thompson was a friend, mentor and employer of my father and even lent my parents his house in the House of France for their honeymoon.

So for me to be speaking in the Roy Thompson Hall is a genuine privilege and honour.

So thank you for having me and being willing to listen to me.

So the real question about liberalism, as George explained, was about the individual.

Who do you think should be in charge of your life?

Should it be you or should it be the state?

Is society built from the bottom up by the millions of decisions of individuals as they go about their daily lives?

Or is it a top-down process where you get told what to do and how to behave?

And let me go back in history way beyond the last 200 years because the first liberal was in fact Prometheus.

Because when Prometheus came down from Olympus and gave mankind fire, he was giving us freedom and he was going against the consensus on Olympus that mankind shouldn't have fire.

So we start liberalism very early in our prehistory.

And when we look around the world, we see that it's liberal societies and liberal economies that have succeeded.

Where is the empire of Rome or of Carthage?

Where is the Ottoman Empire?

But where, more up-to-date, is the Soviet Union?

Lost in dust.

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