The Tory MP was handed the new Cabinet role of Brexit Opportunities Minister earlier this year following the departure from Government of former Brexit Minister Lord Frost.Since this time, a Freedom of Information request has found that he has five civil servants working for him as part of his role.<\/p>\n
The cost of this employment, on top of Mr Rees-Moggs ministerial salary, would be 202,000, according to the SNP.<\/p>\n
Michelle Thomson MSP described the cost as obscene given that Brexit opportunities, in her view, do not exist.<\/p>\n
She, quoted in the Daily Record, said: The Tories would be as well searching for a crock of gold at the end of a rainbow as they are looking for Brexit opportunities neither of them exists.<\/p>\n
\"The money they have spent is obscene and the only difference they can claim so far is selling apples and bananas in pounds instead of kilos.<\/p>\n
Mr Rees-Mogg was earlier this month mock after he told LBC that one advantage of the UK withdrawing from the UK was that the country had avoided a two percent price increase for fish fingers.<\/p>\n
Mrs Thomson added: Jacob Rees-Mogg is on a fool's errand there are no opportunities from Brexit, only downsides.<\/p>\n
\"As a result, Scotland is being held back by the UK.<\/p>\n
European Movement UK, an anti-Brexit campaign group, agreed that this amounted to a complete waste of wages.<\/p>\n
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\"Westminster control means Scotland is being held back compared to independent countries of a similar size. The only way to unlock Scotland's full potential is with independence.\"<\/p>\n
Responding this week to a new paper from the Scottish Government which argues the country would be more democratic outsiders the UK, James Mitchell, Professor of Public Policy, Edinburgh University, noted: The fear for supporters of self-government is that an independent Scotland would simply replicate much of the worst of Westminster.<\/p>\n
What is on offer is not a proposal to renew democracy. This dismal, negative, uninspiring document suggests that the SNP would recreate a warped and discredited form of democracy, an independent Scotland that would simply be a little Britain.<\/p>\n
Express.co.uk approached the Cabinet office for comment.<\/p>\n
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