Annunziata Rees-Mogg

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Annunziata Mary Rees-Mogg (; born 25 March 1979) is a British freelance journalist whose focus is finance, economics, and European politics. She was a Brexit Party, then Conservative politician, during 2019 and into early 2020. Rees-Mogg 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. Formerly active in Conservative Party politics, Rees-Mogg was added to the party's A-List by David Cameron. She stood unsuccessfully as a Conservative parliamentary candidate in the 2005 and 2010 general elections. On 12 April 2019, Rees-Mogg was selected as a candidate for the Brexit Party in the East Midlands constituency in the European Parliament elections and won a seat. She resigned the party whip in December 2019 to support the Conservative Party's Brexit strategy. She rejoined the Conservative Party in January 2020.

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