Jacob Rees-Mogg

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

of a liberal constitution but they support a liberal economic system because with the rights of property you get what you invest in it comes back to you and this means it's worth doing and you get a law that protects you so that contracts can be enforced and implied and an arbitrary government cannot steal from you

and you get free trade.

And free trade is at the absolute heart of a liberal economy because it puts the individual, the consumer, ahead of the producer interest.

And we have seen, to the enormous benefit of the world, countries like China getting on the tailcoats of our freedom and of our free trade to benefit their citizens.

Did you know that in 1990,

36% of the world lived in absolute poverty, 1.9 billion people, and that now that's down to 9.2% of an increased population, so 719 million people.

That hasn't come about because of some accident or divine providence.

It's come about because of liberal economic policies that allowed the poorest countries in the world to trade with us.

And we bought their goods, whether from Bangladesh or from China, and lifted millions into the hundreds of millions out of absolute poverty because of our liberal economic values.

And then what about a liberal society?

I go back to my point.

Who do you think in society should choose how to lead their life?

You or the state?

And what do people want?

What do individuals want?

They want families.

They want to be part of a society and a community.

And you can trust people to make good choices

for themselves.

And societies that try and control actually always end up leveling down, cutting off the tall poppies, cutting down the innovation.

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