Annuziata Rees-Mogg has revealed what it was like working for Nigel Farage during her stint as a Brexit Party MEP.
Rees-Mogg, 45, whose brother Jacob repeatedly rejected calls to jump ship and join Farage, shared some insight on what the Reform UK leader is like behind the scenes.
Speaking at a fringe event held by Popular Conservatives in the ICC, Rees-Mogg confirmed Farage was a better boss than ex-Prime Minister Theresa May.
She said: “I used to work for Nigel Farage. I was a Brexit Party MEP. It was not the Reform party, the Reform party didn’t exist back then.
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Rees-Mogg, who fell just 1,817 votes short of defeating the Liberal Democrats as Somerton & Frome’s Conservative candidate in 2010, revealed she quit the Tory Party after May’s botched Brexit negotiations.
The former Prime Minister led the Conservative Party to a catastrophic result in the 2019 EU Parliamentary Elections.
Farage made history by twice winning national elections despite leading a third party.
Rees-Mogg was elected as a Brexit Party MEP in the East Midlands, with the Eurosceptic party receiving 30.5 per cent of the vote and winning 29 seats nationally.
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May quit after the Tory Party slumped to fifth place nationally, opening Downing Street’s door to Boris Johnson.
Rees-Mogg defected from the Brexit Party to the Tories after Johnson secured his revamped withdrawal agreement with the European Union.
She cited the period as an example of when Farage’s “ego” damages his main cause.
Discussing Farage’s hunger for power, Rees-Mogg said: “There’s nothing more to it than ego.”
Nigel FaragePAThe 45-year-old added: “In 2024, they stood against brilliant people who didn’t deserve to lose, who would have supported 99 per cent of their own agenda.”
Farage opted to stand down 317 candidates in Tory-held seats ahead of the 2019 General Election, with estimates suggesting dozens of other seats would have been claimed by the Conservative Party if no Brexit Party candidate was fielded to contest the seat.
In the 2024 General Election, Reform UK returned five MPs after receiving 4.1 million votes.
However, the populist party cost the Tories dozens of extra seats by splitting the vote on the centre-right.