JACOB REES-MOGG is the Tory MP for North East Somerset, was appointed the minister for Brexit opportunities in February in 2022.
But how many children does he have, and who is his wife? Here’s all you need to know.
How many children does Jacob Rees-Mogg have?
Rees-Mogg is a leading Brexiteer and was Leader of the House of Commons from 2019 to 2022.
His father was a journalist and former Editor of The Times from January 1967 to March 1981.
His sister is a journalist and former Member of the European Parliament.
The long-time Boris Johnson ally is well known for his aristocratic accent, and double-breasted suit.
Like the Prime Minister, Rees-Mogg attended elite public school Eton College, before studying at Oxford University.
He then had a lucrative career in finance, and helped establish investment management firm Somerset Capital Management in 2007.
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He also found the time to have a large family, and has six children (five sons, and one daughter).
Their names are Sixtus, Mary, Peter, Thomas, Alfred and Anselm.
He MP has previously joked of his desire to have enough children to make up a full cricket team.
Who is Jacob Rees-Mogg’s wife?
Rees-Mogg is married to Helena de Chair, who is the mother of all his children.
Helena was a close friend of the MP’s sister, and they have known each other since they were young.
De Chair was born in 1977, and is the daughter of poet and aristocrat Somerset de Chair and Lady Juliet Tadgell.
Her mother Lady Tadgell is heir to the Fitzwilliam fortune, with £45million estimated net worth, which de Chair stands to inherit as her only surviving child, the Spectator reported in 2016.
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The couple were dating for a year before their engagement after Lady Juliet gave the Cabinet minister her blessing.
Helena went to the University of Bristol and in 2019 was reported to be a writer for an oil industry trade magazine.
