Here's a short documentary about him[0]. Highlights include:
* Being the subject of a French television documentary when he was 12 years old[1];
* Campaigning against abortion (which itself is weird in the UK outside of Northern Ireland) while investing in abortion pills; and
* Campaigning for election in one of the most deprived areas of the UK, while accompanied by his nanny (as in, the person employed by his parents to raise him when he was a child) so that she could iron his shirts.
He has been described as a 'real life Dickensian villain' and a 'haunted Victorian pencil', and is frequently referred to on Reddit as 'the honourable member for the nineteenth century' (prior centuries are often substituted). He is also responsible for the first recorded use of the word 'floccinaucinihilipilification' in Hansard (the official transcript of Parliamentary proceedings).
> is frequently referred to on Reddit as 'the honourable member for the nineteenth century' (prior centuries are often substituted).
Also on UK broadcast satire, though I can't remember off the top of my head if I'm thinking of Have I Got News For You or The News Quiz. (Possibly both?)
The nickname actually originated in Westminster circles (where the formula "the honourable member for" is common currency), all comedians just picked it up and ran with it.
I suspect they dislike the person. JRM is the type to jump on any wedge issue like renewables that might appeal to his GB News viewers and boost his figures (crazy that politicians in the UK can have a permanent campaign platform, not even the US allows this nonsense).
It's very reasonable to take anything he says or implies with a massive grain of salt.
Mogg's brief tenure as energy secretary was notable mainly for him proposing a cap on the profits of renewable and nuclear energy providers specifically, having previously been opposed to government intervention in energy markets when oil and gas company profits spiked.
That obviously doesn't mean there's any substantive link between his politics and the Bloomberg study (and he denies being a climate-change denier and supported other policies aimed at encouraging the expansion of renewables anyway) but the context might be helpful to people who don't know who Mogg is