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Dan Bloom

Jacob Rees-Mogg utterly unable to open bottle of water in toe-curling TV moment

He's a 50-year-old Cabinet minister with six children and a multi-million pound fortune.

But it seems isn't the only feat Jacob Rees-Mogg can't muster.

Toe-curlingly awkward footage has captured the moment he tried, tried, tried and failed to open a bottle of water.

His hand squeaked down the microphone as he tried in vain to unleash his drink at an event filmed by the BBC.

Only, however, when he handed it to Tory MP Steve Baker did the bottle manage to pop open.

With one simple twist of the wrist, the self-styled " Brexit hardman" did what Mr Rees-Mogg was utterly unable to.

We've all been there.

Mr Baker joked: "I do all the hard jobs in this partnership."

But perhaps it was simply a ' Theresa May ' situation - that Mr Rees-Mogg did all the hard work only for a new leader to take it over the line.

The amusing moment was captured in the BBC documentary The Brexit Storm Continues, which followed political editor Laura Kuenssberg around the country.

And Mr Rees-Mogg was not the only top Tory to be caught out.

Boris Johnson was also expertly trolled by a woman while on the election campaign trail who made a "love child" joke.

The Prime Minister - who has a reputation as a womaniser- has faced repeated questions about the number of children he has.

In the clip, which was filmed as part of a BBC documentary on Brexit, a woman tells Mr Johnson:  "My son looks remarkably like you, I'd just like you to see him."

He begins to look at the picture on her phone - then she says "he could be your love child".

The PM determinedly avoided engaging with the woman instead told the crowd "stick with us" before he was whisked away and escaped the situation.

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