The newly-knighted Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has defended his acceptance of the honour handed to him by Boris Johnson. <br /> <br />The Tory MP denied feeling “grubby” accepting the gong in light of the former prime minister being found to have misled Parliament and when asked by Channel 4 News whether he would be minded to hand it back, he responded: “That would be very rude to His Majesty." Report by Buseld. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
