Annunziata Rees-Mogg

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Annunziata Rees-Mogg
Member of the European Parliament
for East Midlands
Taking office
2 July 2019
Succeeding Margot Parker
Personal details
Born Annunziata Mary Rees-Mogg
(1979-03-25) 25 March 1979 (age 45)
Bath, Somerset, England
Nationality British
Political party Brexit Party (2019–present)
Conservative (1984–2019)
Spouse(s) Matthew Glanville (m. 2010)
Children 1
Occupation Journalist

Annunziata Rees-Mogg (born 25 March 1979) is a British freelance journalist whose focus is finance, economics, and European politics. She was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Brexit Party in 2019.

She has been a leader writer for The Daily Telegraph, deputy editor of MoneyWeek, and editor of the European Journal, a Eurosceptic magazine owned by Bill Cash's think tank the European Foundation. She is also an occasional contributor to the BBC.

Formerly active in Conservative Party politics, she was added to the party's A-List by David Cameron.[1] She was unsuccessful in her run as a Conservative parliamentary candidate in the 2005 and 2010 general elections.[2][3]

Early life and education

Annunziata Mary Rees-Mogg is one of the daughters of William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg, a former editor of The Times, and his wife Gillian Shakespeare Morris, she is the youngest sister of Jacob Rees-Mogg. She was born on 25 March 1979[4][5] in the Royal United Hospital, Bath. She spent much of her early life living in the Mendips, and grew up at Hinton Blewett.[citation needed]

She joined the Conservative Party at the age of five.[6] She later said of this "I was too young to be a Young Conservative, so I joined the main party. Aged eight I was out canvassing, proudly wearing my rosette."[1]

She was educated at Godolphin and Latymer School in Hammersmith, West London, an independent day school for girls. There, she took A Levels in History, Chemistry and Economics, which she has called "a very odd mix".[7]

Career

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. After leaving school in 1997, she decided against going to a university and instead tried a series of different jobs, in journalism, investment banking, publishing, public relations, and stockbroking.[6][1] In 1998, she moved with her family to Mells, Somerset.

In 2003 she set up Trust the People, a campaign for a referendum on the European Constitution aimed at those too young to have voted in the Common Market referendum of 1975.[1] She has spent much time since 2002 campaigning against Britain's joining the euro, in favour of bringing powers back to Britain.[citation needed] Speaking about the 2003 Iraq War, she subsequently said "I think it was a terrible mistake".[1] She opposed the Hunting Act 2004.[8]

Rees-Mogg was a Conservative association ward chairman in London for the 2002 local elections.[citation needed] In the 2005 general election she came fourth in the safe Labour seat of Aberavon constituency, South Wales,[2] increasing the Conservative vote from 2,096 to 3,064.[2][7][9]

She was selected as prospective parliamentary candidate for Somerton and Frome in 2006.[6] The Observer said of her, "Having enjoyed finance and journalism, she combined the two in a career as a financial journalist. When she turns to discussing Gordon Brown's economic record, she does so with authority.”[10] An article in The Sunday Telegraph in October 2009 reported "Some high-profile women are already installed in winnable seats: Louise Bagshawe [now Mensch], Annunziata Rees-Mogg, Priti Patel, Laura Sandys and Joanne Cash will all make colourful additions to the Tory benches."[11] However, at the 2010 general election, Rees-Mogg failed to take the Somerton and Frome seat from the sitting Liberal Democrat member David Heath.[3]

It was reported that in advance of the 2010 election David Cameron had asked Rees-Mogg to shorten her name for political purposes to Nancy Mogg, which her brother Jacob has since said was "a joke".[12] She refused, replying that "Nancy Mogg may be shorter, but I would rather remain Annunziata Rees-Mogg."[citation needed] This was reported in The Australian newspaper,[13] and Rees-Mogg later commented: "I think it's phoney to pretend to be someone you're not."[8] Cameron subsequently dropped her from the Conservative Party's 2011 pre-selections, despite strong support from many female party members.[14]

On 12 April 2019, she was selected as a candidate for the Brexit Party in the East Midlands constituency in the European Parliament elections[15] and won a seat.[16]

Personal life

In September 2010, Rees-Mogg was engaged to Matthew Glanville,[17] and on 6 November 2010 they were married in Italy at Lucca.[18] Four months later, on 8 March 2011, she gave birth to a daughter, Isadora,[19] who was subsequently christened in St Martin's Church, Welton le Marsh in Lincolnshire.[20]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Eyre, Hermione, "New Model Tories: The Cameroons are coming", The Independent, 24 September 2006.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 UK General Election results May 2005 Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine, politicsresources.net.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 GENERAL ELECTION 2010: LibDems hold Somerton and Frome, dated 7 May 2010 at chardandilminsternews.co.uk
  4. ↑ Charles Kidd, ed., Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2008, p. 1,188
  5. ↑ Woods, Vicki. Annunziata Rees-Mogg's surname isn't the problem for David Cameron in The Daily Telegraph dated 12 December 2009
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Guy Adams "Rees-Mogg: First family of fogeys", The Independent, 19 October 2006."
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 John Baxter, Profile of Annunziata Rees Mogg, wincantonwindow.co.uk, 9 March 2010.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ www.politicsresources.net Archived 11 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Aberavon.
  10. ↑ Oliver Marre, I'm not sure I want to look like her but I admire Ann Widdecombe's ability to stick to her beliefs, The Observer, 12 July 2009
  11. ↑ Kite, Melissa. "The softly, softly fight for the women's vote at the general election", The Sunday Telegraph, 25 October 2009
  12. ↑ Andrew Neil. "Posh and Posher: Why Public School Boys Run Britain." BBC Two. 19 February 2011. Clip available online.
  13. ↑ Peter Wilson, Cameron's Britain is suspicious of the Conservative it may elect, in The Australian dated 13 March 2010
  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  16. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  17. ↑ Annunziata Rees-Mogg agrees to change name at last dated Wednesday, 8 September 2010, online at thisissomerset.co.uk
  18. ↑ Matthew Glanville & Annunziata Rees-Mogg at legacy.com/timesonline-uk, dated 12/11/2010, accessed 16 January 2011
  19. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  20. ↑ About Matthew Glanville at www.matthewglanville.com, accessed 5 July 2018
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