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Vandals have daubed "posh scum" on the home of Tory Jacob Rees-Mogg and stuck a pink dildo to his wife's car.

Anarchist symbols, "****head" and "shut up and die" were also scrawled on the Old Etonian's country home as he took a holiday in New York.

Condoms were left strewn over the garden of the house in West Harptree, Somerset, while the word "t**t" was painted on an umbrella stand.

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Avon and Somerset Police are investigating the vandalism, which the 49-year-old MP claimed was a "drunken protest" and was reportedly discovered by his maid.

The incident last Wednesday happened while the father-of-six, who is the son of a peer and married into landed gentry, was spotted in a double-breasted suit with his children in the Big Apple.

Mr Rees-Mogg is the leader of the hard Brexiteer European Research Group and firm Catholic, opposing abortion even for women who have been raped.

A police spokesman declined to confirm whether officers were treating the incident - including the condoms - as religiously aggravated.

Mr Rees-Mogg said: "It appears to be someone who can’t hold their drink - and probably not Catholic."

He added: "I do not think it advances political debate and it is unclear what particular point they wanted to make.

"Fortunately everything has been cleaned up so the consequences are minimal. It is probably drunken excess.

An Avon and Somerset Police spokesman said: “We’re investigating a report of criminal damage at a property in West Harptree.

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“The incident happened sometime between 4pm on Wednesday, 1 August and 8am on Thursday 2 August.

“Graffiti was sprayed on a building and a car, while damage was also caused to the garden.

“House to house enquiries have been carried out while crime scene investigators have attended.

“Enquiries are ongoing.”

Mr Rees-Mogg is the son of a former Times newspaper editor and amassed a vast fortune through his City firm Somerset Capital Management.

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He has six eccentrically-named children with his aristocrat wife Helena, whose ancestors include Charles I advisor Thomas Wentworth and former Prime Minister Charles Watson-Wentworth. A painting of Watson-Wentworth's horse hangs in the National Gallery.

Her family inherited the stately home Wentworth Woodhouse, which was given a £7.6million repair grant by the Tory government last year despite soaring homelessness.

He has defended zero-hour contracts, opposed gay marriage, and claimed the huge rise of food banks is "uplifting".