Shackled to the failing EU
Jacob Rees-Mogg, MP
Ruth Lea
 With the speakers; the Hon.
Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, member of the House of Commons European Scrutiny
Committee & Ruth Lea, economist, author and
broadcaster.
 
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The
Hon. Jacob Rees-Mogg MP
 Jacob Rees-Mogg is the Conservative Member of Parliament for
North East
Somerset. He is rated as one of the Conservatives’ most rebellious MPs. In
the House of Commons he serves on the Procedure and European Scrutiny
Select Committees.
Prior to entering politics Jacob Rees-Mogg worked in financial services where
he set up
his own company, Somerset Capital Management in 2007. Previously he was in
Global
Emerging Markets at Lloyd George Management.
His political interests concern matters to do with the Treasury and the
European Union.
Jacob Rees-Mogg is also particularly interested in China, the Far East and
India.
Ruth Lea
 Ruth Lea is currently Economic Adviser to and a
non-executive director
of the Arbuthnot Banking Group. She is also a member of the Institute of
Economic Affairs’ Shadow Monetary Policy Committee. She is the author of
many papers on economic matters.
Her previous posts include the Director of Global Vision (2007-10), Director
of the Centre
for Policy Studies (2004-07), Head of the Policy Unit at the Institute of
Directors (1995-
2003) and Economics Editor at ITN (1994-95). She was also Chief UK Economist
at
Lehman Brothers and Chief Economist at Mitsubishi Bank; worked for 16 years in
the Civil
Service (the Treasury, the DTI, the Civil Service College and the Central
Statistical Office)
and was an economics lecturer at Thames Polytechnic (now the University of
Greenwich).
The topic of Ruth’s talk is; Britain and Europe: A New
relationship.
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