There he is again out on the streets in the government district of Whitehall in London. Around him, the journalists, in front of him, cameras and microphones. Jacob Rees-Mogg, a conservative member of Parliament from the English County of Somerset, is parted, as always, accurately, as always, he is wearing a suit and tie, the suit disappears under a winter coat. And as always, the 49-Year – old of his government and party boss Theresa May hard makes life. The politician reiterates his claim that the so-called Backstop in the exit agreement must be changed, he and other Brexit enthusiasts agree to the contract.
On Tuesday, the debated in the lower house about the further procedure in the Brexit . And Rees-Mogg was again a sought-after interview partner. This is the multi-millionaire who made his money with an investment company, for almost three years.
The politician is one of the most radical and influential opponents of the EU in the case of the Tories, the Conservative. He drummed before the Referendum in 2016 with a lot of use for the exit. Since the referendum he used his energy to fight for a hard-Brexit, without a membership in the single market or the customs Union. In the previous January, he was Chairman of the European Research Group (ERG), the Alliance of EU-opponents in the conservative group.
The father was editor-in-chief
These followers of a hard-Brexit miss the Backstop in the EU falls mainly to the exit agreement. This scheme could keep the Kingdom in a customs Union with the EU, to avoid customs controls, on the island of Ireland. The peak reached the Rees-Moggs guerrilla tactics against the Brexit course of his Prime Minister in December. Since the group agreed at the request of the ERG about whether May really enjoy your confidence. May won, and Rees-Mogg showed themselves as bad losers. He called Mays a result of “terrible” and called on them to voluntary resignation.
The fit is not cultivated at all in the image of the old-fashioned, eccentric Gentleman from the country, the Rees-Mogg otherwise. He comes from wealthy parents and grew up in Somerset. His father was editor-in-chief of the conservative daily newspaper “The Times”. To expensive private schools such as Eton and a history degree, followed in Oxford. Already as a student he became interested in monetary systems, he complained as a 12-Year-old at the annual General meeting of a company about the low dividend. Newspapers took up the: A photo shows the young, tie-wearing Jacob reads the “Financial Times”, next to him is a Teddy bear.
kids hot as popes
His wife also brings a lot of money in the marriage, and their six children have names of popes and saints, as Rees-Mogg is Catholic. At the age of 27, he is set up for the first time as a candidate for the Parliament election, but no chance. In 2010, on the third attempt, and in another constituency, the Conservative to the lower house.
Because of his old-fashioned Manner, he is also called the “Deputy for the 18. Century,” ridiculed. “I’ve never claimed to be a modern man, not at all,” he says. The amusing, self-ironic Occurrence, however, cannot obscure the fact that his views are moving to the extreme right edge of the party. Rees-Mogg is against gay marriage and abortion, he rejected the generous social services or development aid – and he is, like his father earlier, die-hard opponents of the EU. The Deputy with the good manners, the make accent and radical opinions, was long a marginal figure in Westminster. But now many of the party members in surveys, that you could imagine Rees-Mogg as the successor to Mays at the head of government. Its popularity the politician has to be owed to the Brexit. He is a winner of the outlet.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 30.01.2019, 22:07 PM
