Jacob Rees-Mogg MP

Jacob Rees-Mogg, Conservative MP for North East Somerset, Member of the European Scrutiny Select Committee

Contacts

Office: North East Somerset Conservative Association, Rear of 16 High Street, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 1DQ Tel: 0117-987 2313 Email: jacob.reesmogg.mp@parliament.uk

Career

Jacob Rees-Moggs was elected as the Member of Parliament for North East Somerset in May 2010, with a majority of 4914. Within Parliament, he sits on the Procedure Committee which considers the practice and procedure of the House in the conduct of business and the European Scrutiny Committee which assesses the legal and political importance of each EU document, deciding which is debated within the House.

Prior Career

After studying at Eton Jacob Rees-Moggs read History at Trinity College Oxford, before moving into finance being based in Hong Kong and later moving back to London. He now runs his own company, Somerset Capital Management, which specialises in investment management for pension funds and charitable organisations.

Issues

Communications Data Surveillance

Jacob Rees-Moggs has raised a series of concerns over the move enabling the Government to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website usage of everyone in the UK. [1]. In the same article he states:

It seems to me with the security services this should be targeted at people who they have concerns about, not everybody just in case.

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A lot of innocent transactions will get known by the state.

Jacob Rees-Mogg has publically ridiculed this move from the Coalition and has dubbed it ‘hypocritical’ by the government.[2]

Links

Jacob Rees-Mogg MP Personal Website