‘This will be the department for growth’. Jacob Rees-Mogg has been appointed as the UK’s new Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, after Liz Truss became the country’s new Prime Minister on September 6. Commenting on his new appointment, Rees-Mogg said in a Twitter statement, “it is an honor to be appointed as the new Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy”. “I look forward to serving the Prime Minister and the country during the challenging times ahead,” he added in the statement. In a separate Twitter statement posted on his official page, Rees-Mogg said, “as Business Secretary my overriding mission is to deliver affordable and plentiful energy to the British people and to make the economy as efficient, innovative and dynamic as possible”. “This will be the department for growth,” he added. In a Twitter statement on its page, the Department for Business, […]