DAVID Cameron tried to block Jacob Rees-Mogg from becoming an MP because he was too posh, it emerged yesterday.

The popular backbencher revealed for the first time that the office of the former Tory leader phoned his election agent for the 2010 candidate selection contest in the North Somerset seat to offer her any other candidate “so long as their name wasn’t Rees-Mogg”.

2 David Cameron called Jacob Rees-Mogg's election agent to offer her a different candidate in the 2010 candidate election Credit: AFP or licensors

It has previously been revealed that Mr Cameron tried to get Mr Rees-Mogg’s sister Annunziata to change her name to Nancy Mogg to make her sound more common at the same election but she refused. She failed to get elected.

Speaking to a ConservativeHome podcast called ‘Moggcast’, Mr Rees-Mogg said: “My agent was told that before the final selection round that she could have any candidate she liked so long as their name wasn’t Rees-Mogg or her name. Central office was very keen to stop me being selected at every stage.”

Earlier this week Mr Rees-Mogg slammed David Cameron and George Osborne for their bid to modernise the Tory party.

He said: “Modernisation in the David Cameron and George Osborne project was very much about casting the party in the mould rather than in a fundamental change.

2 MP Jacob Rees Mogg previously slammed David Cameron and George Osborne for attempting to modernise the Conservative party Credit: Getty Images - Getty

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“It’s like the Blair approach the Labour Party, that New Labour was about a Labour Party that was like Tony Blair.

“Modernisation was about making the Conservative Party that was like George Osborne.

“In terms of modernisation, it became very much a PR exercise rather than indicating strong underlying principles.”

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