A 17th century country house filmed by Jacob Rhys Mogg is being used to house asylum seekers, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The former Brexit minister went viral this week when he was filmed being rebuffed by security as he tried to investigate suggestions that secluded Winford Manor in North Somerset is now accommodating illegal, small boat migrants.
That clip and his report on his GB News programme State of the Nation, Rees-Mogg, 56, ended inconclusively as guards blocked him at the wrought-iron front gates and he was unable to speak to the groups of men he saw wandering the grounds from over the wall.
But today the Daily Mail can reveal that the suspicions of the former minister were correct: the property in the sleepy village of Winford has been used as an asylum centre for some three years.
And we can plot the full story of the takeover of the 36-bedroom property - and how its change of use has infuriated locals.
