Annunziata Rees-Mogg

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 joined the Conservative Party at the age of five.[7] 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."[4]

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".[8]

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.[7][4] 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.[4] Speaking about the 2003 Iraq War, she subsequently said, "I think it was a terrible mistake".[4] She opposed the Hunting Act 2004.[9]

In the 2005 general election Rees-Mogg came fourth in the safe Labour seat of Aberavon, South Wales,[5] increasing the Conservative vote from 2,096 to 3,064.[5][8][10]

She was selected as prospective parliamentary candidate for Somerton and Frome in 2006.[7] 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."[11] In November 2007, she wrote an article for MoneyWeek magazine entitled "How to profit from the world's water crisis", setting out some of the investment opportunities in the sector.[12] 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."[13] However, at the 2010 general election, Rees-Mogg failed to take the Somerton and Frome seat from the sitting Liberal Democrat member David Heath.[6]

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".[14][15] Rees-Mogg later commented: "I think it's phoney to pretend to be someone you're not."[9] Cameron subsequently dropped her from the Conservative Party's 2011 pre-selections, despite strong support from many female party members.[16]

On 12 April 2019, she was selected as a candidate for the Brexit Party in the East Midlands constituency in the European Parliament elections,[17] and she won a seat.[18] She resigned the party whip in December 2019 to support the Conservative Party's Brexit strategy.[19] She later rejoined the Conservative Party in January 2020.[20]

In September 2010, Rees-Mogg became engaged to Matthew Glanville,[21] and on 6 November 2010 they were married in Italy at Lucca.[22] Four months later, on 8 March 2011, she gave birth to a daughter, Isadora,[23] who was christened in St Martin's Church, Welton le Marsh in Lincolnshire.[24] In 2018 she gave birth to a second daughter, Molly. In late 2019, she announced she was expecting her third child.[25]