Jacob Rees-Mogg

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Jacob Rees-Mogg was born in Hammersmith, England, United Kingdom on May 24th, 1969 and is the Politician. At the age of 54, Jacob Rees-Mogg biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
May 24, 1969
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Hammersmith, England, United Kingdom
Age
54 years old
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Gemini
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Trinity College, Oxford
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Helena de Chair ​(m. 2007)​
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The Lord Rees-Mogg, Gillian Morris
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Annunziata Rees-Mogg (sister)
Jacob Rees-Mogg Life

Jacob William Rees-Mogg (born 24 May 1969) is a British politician who has served as the Speaker of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council since 2019, and has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Somerset since 2010.

Rees-Mogg, a Conservative Party member, is a social conservative. Rees-Mogg was born in Hammersmith, London, and educated at Eton College.

He then studied History at Trinity College, Oxford, and was President of the Oxford University Conservative Association.

He worked in London and Hong Kong for Lloyd George Management until 2007, before co-founding Somerset Capital Management LLP, a hedge fund management firm.

He has amassed a fortune: his estimated net worth in 2016 ranged from £55 million to £150 million (including his wife's prospects).

He unsuccessfully contested the 1997 and 2001 general elections before being elected as the MP for North East Somerset in 2010.

He was reelected in 2015 and 2017, with an increasing share of the vote each time.

He belonged to the traditionalist and socially conservative Cornerstone Group within the Conservative Party. Rees-Mogg was one of the Whip's most outspoken members during David Cameron's reign, attacking the Whip's office on topics including the issuance of same-sex marriages.

He became well-known for his speeches and filibustering in parliamentary debates.

He suggested an electoral pact between the Conservatives and the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and campaigned for the Leave campaign in the 2016 referendum on EU membership.

In 2018, he joined the Eurosceptic European Research Group (ERG), becoming chairman in 2018.

He gained clout through his social media activism, earning him a following as the Torch leader of Prime Minister Theresa May.

Boris Johnson, on the other hand, endorsed him in the 2019 leadership race.

Following his election as the Conservative Leader and his appointment as Prime Minister, Johnson named him Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council. Rees-Mogg is a controversial figure in British politics.

He has been praised as a conviction politician with anachronistic upper-class demeanors and a clearly traditionalist outlook; he has been dubbed the "Honorable Member for the 18th century."

Critics see him as a reactionary figure, with some of his positions making him the object of organized demonstrations.

Personal life

Rees-Mogg is the uncle of Olympic athlete Lawrence Clarke and fellow Conservative MP Theo Clarke.

Helena Anne Beatrix Wentworth Fitzwilliam de Chair, a writer for a trade journal and the youngest child of Somerset de Chair and his fourth mother Lady Juliet Tadgell, married in 2006. Rees-Mogg had first met de Chair, a close friend of his sister's, as a child and began dating the year before she married Rees-Mogg, who had gained the blessing of her mother. In 2007, the two were married at Canterbury Cathedral, Kent, in a ceremony at which the post-Vatican II Mass was celebrated in Latin.

The couple purchased the Grade II* listed Gournay Court in West Harptree, where they live with their six children. The house is a former Red Cross hospital where Rees-Mogg's great aunt served as a volunteer nurse and resident matron during the First World War.

"I've made no effort to be a modern man at all," Rees-Mogg said in July 2017 when he said he had never changed a diaper, adding, "I'm sure she wouldn't believe she wouldn't do it properly." "Men who don't change nappies are deadbeat dads, including Jacob Rees-Mogg," Labour MP Harriet Harman said in September 2017.

Rees-Mogg, who serves as a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Historic Vehicles, is keen on historic vehicles. He bought a 1968 T-Series Bentley that had previously owned by cricketer Gubby Allen at a age of 23. Rees-Mogg bought a 1936 3.5 Litre Bentley to his collection in 2005 and used a Lexus for everyday use. Rees-Mogg is a cricket fan and has supported Somerset County Cricket Club since his youth.

He bought a £5 million home on Cowley Street, behind Westminster Abbey, in May 2018.

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Jacob Rees-Mogg Career

Life and career

Rees-Mogg, the younger brother of William Rees-Mogg (1928–2012), editor of The Times newspaper, and his sister Gillian Shakespeare Morris, a retired minister, political activist, and the mayor of St Pancras, London, was born on May 24th. Emma Beatrice Rees-Mogg (born 1962), Thomas Rees-Mogg (born 1966), and Annunziata Mary Rees-Mogg (born 1979) are three children, with three elder siblings.

The family had bought Ston Easton Park, a country house near the village of Ston Easton, Somerset, where Rees-Mogg grew up to attend weekly mass and occasionally Sunday school at the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Ghost, Midsomer Norton, in 1964. He began catechism in 1975 under his stewardship and attended mass in the normal way. The family purchased The Old Rectory, a Grade II listed former rectory, in Hinton Blewett a few years ago. He travelled to his family's second home in Smith Square, London, where he attended prep school at Westminster Under School.

Rees-Mogg was mostly raised by the family's nanny, Veronica Crook, who, as he grew up, was regarded as a model figure. Crook began working for the family in 1965 to look after Rees-Mogg's older siblings and then looked after Rees-Mogg's children; in 2021, she had been with the family for 56 years.

Rees-Mogg was ten years old when he was left £50 by a distant cousin and his father, who were acting on his behalf, and invested in shares in the now defunct General Electric Company (GEC). Rees-Mogg said this was the beginning of his involvement in stock markets. He later attended a shareholders' meeting at GEC, where he voted against a motion because dividends were too small. He later learned how to read company reports and balance sheets. He later invested in Lonrho, a London-based conglomerate, eventually owning 340 shares, and is said to have caused the company's chairman Lord Duncan-Sandys "discomfort" by questioning him at an annual general meeting on the low dividends offered to shareholders. He told the chairman that the dividend on offer was "pathetic," sparking amusement among board members and the media in 1981.

Rees-Mogg left prep school for Eton College, where he was described as a "particularly dogmatic" Thatcherite in a school report. He had his portrait etched by Paul Branson RP for the Eton College Collections, which was later on display at the Faces of the 1993 Royal Society of Portrait Painters exhibition.

Rees-Mogg read history at Trinity College, Oxford, where he obtained a second-class honours degree in 1991. Almost immediately after arriving in 1988, he was nominated by Cherwell for the title "Pushy Fresher," which included a photograph of open-mouthed Rees-Mogg in a suit with the caption "What more do we need?" He served as president of the Oxford University Conservative Association, a "campaign for world domination and social adequacy," says Cherwell. Rees-Mogg was a member and frequent debater in the Oxford Union and elected Librarian, but Damian Hinds defeated him for President of the Union. Rees-Mogg regrets not having studied Classics during his time at university.

Rees-Mogg joined J Rothschild Wealth Management under Nils Taube in 1991 before heading to Hong Kong in 1993 to join Lloyd George Management. During his time in Hong Kong, he became a close friend of Governor Chris Patten and was a regular attender at Government House. He returned to London three years ago and was put in charge of several of the firm's emerging markets funds. He was also the head of a newly established Lloyd George Emerging Markets Fund by 2003. Rees-Mogg left the company with a team of colleagues to launch Somerset Capital Management, with the support of hedge fund manager Crispin Odey. Following Rees-Mogg's reelection as the Member of Parliament for North East Somerset, he resigned as the company's chief executive, but as a partner, he continues to receive compensation.

When combined with his wife's planned inheritance, Rees-Mogg's wealth has been estimated to be in excess of £100 million, leaving him vulnerable to the criticism that he has no idea of the lives and fears of many ordinary people.

Somerset Capital launched an investment fund in Dublin in 2018 in the aim of continuing to attract European retail investors following Brexit. Brexit was rated as one of the risks in the latest company prospectus, because it could result in "serious uncertainty." Rees-Mogg remains a partner of the company, but does not control the accounts or make investment decisions, according to Rees-Mogg: "The decision to open the fund had nothing to do with Brexit."

Rees-Mogg denied claims that his estimates showed he had not earned £7 million in the time since the referendum when being interviewed by Channel 4 in March 2019.

Following his appointment as House of Commons leader in July 2019, Rees-Mogg resigned from his part-time job with Somerset Capital Management.

Rees-Mogg first began voting in 1997 general election, where he was elected as the Conservative Party nominee for Central Fife, a traditional Labour seat in Scotland at the age of 27. With a strong upper class background on his father's vote against a predominantly working-class electorate and being described as "so posh," he caused some confusion among locals by canvassing the area with his family's nanny and touring the constituency in a Bentley, a charge he later referred to as "scurrilous" and insisting it was a Mercedes. Rees-Mogg managed to gain the third-most votes on election night, earning 9% of all votes cast, much less than that of previous Conservative Party candidates in the area, despite having less than 2%. However, no new Conservative MPs were elected in Scotland this year; the Conservative Party suffered its worst election since 1906 and lost all of Scotland's seats.

Rees-Mogg was defended by letter writers to The Daily Telegraph in 1999, when it was rumoured that his "anachronistically posh" accent was threatening his chances of being chosen for a safe Conservative seat, one of whom claimed that "an overt act of coercion exists and punishes anyone who dares to eschew the old, Americanized, way of life, speech, and dress." Rees-Mogg said (in The Sunday Times, May 29, 1999) that "it's rather pathetic to worry about accents too much," but then went on to say that "John Prescott's accent certainly stereotypes him as an oaf," a remark that he regretted and for which he apologised later. "I gradually understood that whatever I was talking about, the number of people in my favour dropped as soon as I opened my mouth," he later said.

Rees-Mogg was elected as the Conservative nominee for The Wrekin, Shropshire, in 2001, but Labour MP Peter Bradley lost by a 0.9 percent swing to Labour against the national trend of a 3.8 percent swing to the Conservatives. He served as the elected Chairman of the Cities of London and the Westminster Conservative Association from 2005 to 2008.

Rees-Mogg, the conservative Party's former leader, attempted to raise the representation of ethnic minorities on the party's list in 2006, arguing that fulfilling quotas "makes it more difficult for the intellectually able" and that "ninety-five percent of this world is white." The list isn't necessarily different from the country's.

After being told that a Rees-Mogg newsletter plagiarized portions of a Kavanagh article that had appeared in the newspaper more than a month ago, Rees-Mogg was forced to apologize to Trevor Kavanagh, then political editor of The Sun, in March 2009.

Since learning that the "constituent" was a London-based staff of his brokerage company, a pamphlet that purported to show him talking to a local constituent and urging the government to "show more transparency" in December 2009 was chastised.

He was one of the founders of the Catholic Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in London who were ordered to resign by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor in February 2008 after protracted protests over the introduction of a tighter ethical code prohibiting non-Catholic activities such as abortions and gender reassignment surgery at the hospital.

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Jacob Rees-Mogg Awards

Awards

  • Foot in Mouth Award

Exhausted Tory MPs say they are "indifferent" over Rishi Sunak's fate, with rumors that hundreds of people sitting in Commons are "indifferent" about the PM's future, while right-wingers warn Penny Mordaunt's taking over is "inconceivable."

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 19, 2024
Some of Rishi Sunak's longest-serving analysts have joined his colleagues in pleading for colleagues, putting an end to the latest bout of bitter infighting. Former Tory Prime Minister Jonathan Gullis raged that he is "f***ing bored" of being forced to explain the "psychodrama" to voters on doorsteps. Mr Sunak could not be held "personally accountable" for a series of apocalyptic polls, according to former Cleb minister Jacob Rees-Mogg, and the party 'just needs to get on with it.' He also shot those calling for Penny Mordaunt to take power, saying the plan was "inconceivable." Mr Sunak is assembled Cabinet this morning as he tries to decide on his premiership.

Five episodes on GB News hosted by Tory MPs including Jacob Rees-Mogg broke Ofcom's impartiality rules - as watchdog warns it will sanction channel for repeated breaches

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 18, 2024
Five episodes on GB News hosted by Tory MPs including Jacob Rees-Mogg broke Ofcom's broadcasting rules on due impartiality, it has been found. The watchdog's probe involved episodes of shows presented separately by former House of Commons leader Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, minister without portfolio Esther McVey, and backbencher Philip Davies. The episodes presented by Rees-Mogg were aired on May 9 and June 13 last year.

After 'quietly passing broad EU equality rules into British legislation, Tory backlash at Rishi Sunak "wasting Brexit rights."

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 18, 2024
Conservatives have sounded the alarm over rules that could lead to companies being sued because, for example, carers are refused the right to work from home. Despite ten Conservatives voting against, ministers pushed through the changes, which lead to the European Court of Justice rulings by Christmas. However, the government said it was still 'carefully' considering the change and that it could make further revisions to the 2010 Equality Act if necessary.
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