- William Rees-Mogg
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party = Conservative PartyWilliam Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg (b.
July 14 1928 ,Bristol, England ) is a journalist and writer in theUnited Kingdom .Life and career
He was educated at Charterhouse and
Balliol College, Oxford . He was President of theOxford Union in 1951.Rees-Mogg began his journalism career at "
The Financial Times ", before moving to "The Sunday Times". Here he wrote an article which many believe convincedAlec Douglas-Home to resign as Tory leader, making way forEdward Heath , in July1965 . He was Conservative candidate for the safe Labour seat ofChester-le-Street in aby-election onSeptember 27 ,1956 , losing to Labour candidate Norman Pentland by 21,287 votes.Rees-Mogg served as editor of "
The Times " newspaper from1967 to1981 , and still writes comment for the paper. In July 1967 Rees-Mogg wrote the famous editorial "Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel? " defendingMick Jagger following the Redlands arrests and attacking the UK laws oncannabis usage. He also was on theBBC 's Board of Governors and a chairman of theArts Council overseeing a major reform of the body halving the number of arts organisations receiving regular funding and reducing the Council's direct activities. Having beenHigh Sheriff of Somerset from 1978 to 1979, he was made alife peer in1988 as Baron Rees-Mogg, ofHinton Blewitt in the County of Avon, and sits in theHouse of Lords as across-bencher . He is currently a member of theEuropean Reform Forum .Rees-Mogg is author of "
The Sovereign Individual ", "The Great Reckoning ", and "Blood in the Streets ", all three co-authored withJames Dale Davidson .Rees-Mogg's stand on drugs led to him being satirised by "
Private Eye " as "Mogadon Man", who also mock the perceived inaccuracy of his predictions by referring to him as "Mystic Mogg".His youngest daughter,
the Honourable Annunziata Rees-Mogg , stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the 2005 general election. His son,Jacob Rees-Mogg , has also stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Conservative party in the 1997 and 2001 general elections.Lord Rees-Mogg is the Chairman of The Zurich Club and a regular contributor to The Fleet Street Letter.
Writing in The Times in 2001, Lord Rees Mogg, who has a house in Somerset, described himself as "a country person who spends most of his time in London", and attempted to define the characteristics of a "country person". He also wrote that Tony Blair was as unpopular in rural England as Mrs Thatcher had been in Scotland. His views were borne out by the 2001 election results [BBC Map of 2001 General Election results: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/vote2001/results_constituencies/pol_map.stm] ] .
In the media
Rees-Mogg was interviewed about the rise of
Thatcherism for the 2006BBC TV documentary series "Tory! Tory! Tory! ".ee also
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