Annunziata Mary Rees-Mogg (/əˌnʊntsiˈɑːtə/; born 25 March 1979) is a British Conservative politician and freelance journalist whose focus is finance, economics, and European politics. Having been elected as a Brexit Party candidate at the 2019 European Parliamentary elections, but latterly sitting as a Conservative, she was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East Midlands region for seven months until the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU on 31 January 2020.