Jacob Rees-Mogg

Jacob Rees-Mogg      (politician)
Dining with TBG's Gregory Lauder-Frost
Born	Jacob William Rees-Mogg 24 May 1969 Hammersmith, London, England
Alma mater	Trinity College, Oxford
Children	6
Spouse	Helena de Chair
Founder of	Somerset Capital Management
Member of	Knights of Malta
Party	Conservative
Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy  In office 6 September 2022 - 25 October 2022 Appointed by Liz Truss Preceded by Kwasi Kwarteng Succeeded by Grant Shapps  Minister of State for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency In office 8 February 2022 - 6 September 2022 Appointed by Boris Johnson  Leader of the House of Commons  In office 24 July 2019 - 8 February 2022 Appointed by Boris Johnson  European Research Group/Chair In office 16 January 2018 - Present  Member of Parliament for North East Somerset In office 6 May 2010 - Present

Jacob Rees-Mogg is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Somerset since 2010. He was appointed Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy by Liz Truss in September 2022 but resigned the following month when Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister.

Jacob Rees-Mogg's earlier ministerial experience includes Leader of the House of Commons, Lord President of the Council and Minister of State for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency .

A member of the hard right wing of the Conservative Party, he has been ideologically characterised as a High Tory and social conservative with reactionary, traditionalist, and right-wing populist views.

Cronyism

In October 2022, Business Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg was caught up in a cronyism row after his business partner and Somerset Capital Management co-founder Dominic Johnson was appointed a Minister in the Liz Truss' government.

Face masks

“Masks are worn more by socialists when there are television cameras around than when they are not going to be seen.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (21 October 2021) 

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
National Conservative Conference	15 May 2023	17 May 2023	London United Kingdom	A 2023 conference on Conservativism
UK/Parliament/Voted YES to vaccine passports in 2021			UK/House of Commons	These members of the UK Parliament voted YES to the introduction of a "vaccine" passport in 2021

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Boris Johnson is Unfit for National Office	blog post	13 December 2021	Clifford Thurlow	Johnson has been astute with the people he has gathered about him in the Cabinet. They are greedy and self-serving. They will never Level Up. They will continue to leech money from the NHS, underfund schools and keep hungry people queuing up outside food banks.
Document:How to profit from an engineered economic decline and crisis	Article	28 September 2022	Robert Bryson	How do you profit from an engineered economic decline and crisis? Simple really – acquire and give inside information to the hedge funders, who fund your leadership campaign!
Document:The Real Reason Theresa May’s Brexit Has Failed	Article	2 March 2019	T. J. Coles	So, the choice faced by ordinary British people is between a neoliberal EU supported by millionaires like Kenneth Clarke or an ultra-neoliberal Brexit supported by multimillionaires like Jacob Rees-Mogg. Meanwhile, ordinary working-class people pay the price for these elite games, as usual.

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