Jacob Rees-Mogg
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The Honourable Jacob Rees-Mogg MP |
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Rees-Mogg in 2013
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Member of Parliament for North East Somerset |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | New constituency |
| Majority | 12,749 (24.9%) |
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24 May 1969 Hammersmith, London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Helena de Chair |
| Relations | William, Lord Rees-Mogg (father) |
| Children | 5 |
| Residence | Gournay Court,West Harptree, Somerset |
| Education | Eton College |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Fund manager |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Jacob William Rees-Mogg (born 24 May 1969) is a British Conservative Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for North East Somerset since the 2010 general election. Rees-Mogg is on the Eurosceptic wing of the Conservative Party.
Rees-Mogg is the son of the late William Rees-Mogg, a former editor of The Times and life peer, and his wife Gillian Shakespeare Morris. He has three sisters and a brother. One of his sisters, Annunziata, is a journalist and fellow Conservative politician. A member of an established Somerset family of coal mine owners, Rees-Mogg was born in Hammersmith, London, and grew up in Ston Easton, Somerset.
Rees-Mogg was educated at Eton College and subsequently read history at Trinity College, Oxford. He became president of the Oxford University Conservative Association and was a member and frequent debater at the Oxford Union, where he was elected Librarian (the Union's second-highest position), but later failed in his bid for the presidency.
Rees-Mogg worked in the City of London in the Global Emerging Markets division of Lloyd George Management before setting up his own company, Somerset Capital Management, in 2007.
At the 1997 general election, Rees-Mogg was the Tory candidate for the solidly Labour seat of Central Fife and attracted ridicule after canvassing a largely working class neighbourhood with his nanny; on election night he came third, gaining 9% of the votes cast, slightly fewer than half of the votes won by the previous Conservative candidate in 1992. However, rumours that he had toured the constituency in a Bentley were described as "scurrilous" − he insisted it had been a Mercedes.
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