Jake Pugh
{{short description|British politician and businessman (born 1960)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2019}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix =
| name = Jake Pugh
| honorific-suffix =
| party = Brexit (since 2019)
| otherparty = Referendum (1997)
| image = Jake Pugh MEP.jpg
| caption =
| constituency_MP = Yorkshire and the Humber
| status =
| term_start = 2 July 2019
| predecessor = Mike Hookem
| successor = Constituency abolished
| term_end = 31 January 2020
| parliament = European
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y| 20 October 1960}}
| birth_place = Pembury, Kent, England
| death_date =
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| nationality = British
| spouse =
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| education = Rugby School
| alma_mater = Durham University
| occupation = Politician, Businessman
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| website = {{URL|jakepughview.com}}
}}
Edward Francis Pugh (born 20 October 1960) is a British politician, and businessman. Pugh was a Brexit Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber from 2019 to 2020.
Early life and career
Edward Francis Pugh was born on 20 October 1960 in Pembury, Kent, England.{{cite web|url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197813/JAKE_PUGH/home|title=Jake Pugh|date=20 October 1960 |publisher=European Parliament|accessdate=10 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190817100908/http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197813/JAKE_PUGH/home|archive-date=17 August 2019|url-status=live}} Both his parents were Conservative Party activists. His older brother, businessman Henry Pugh, died in 2013. His early education was at the private Rugby School.{{cite web|url=https://issuu.com/rugbeiansociety/docs/e-floreat_summer2013|title=E-Floreat Summer 2013|date=27 January 2016 |publisher=Rugby School|accessdate=10 August 2019|page=31}} Pugh studied economics and politics at Durham University (Hatfield College).{{cite news|title=Meet your new MEPs for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire|url=https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/meet-your-new-meps-yorkshire-2919248|work=Grimsby Telegraph|date=3 June 2019|accessdate=10 August 2019|last=Daly|first=Patrick|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190810123533/https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/meet-your-new-meps-yorkshire-2919248|archive-date=10 August 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/meet-yorkshire-humbers-new-brexit-2914997|work=Hull Daily Mail|date=28 May 2019|accessdate=10 August 2019|last=Young|first=Angus|title=Meet Yorkshire and the Humber's new Brexit Party MEPs|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190810133543/https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/meet-yorkshire-humbers-new-brexit-2914997|archive-date=10 August 2019|url-status=live}} As a student he played cricket alongside Tim Curtis and Steve Henderson and later played for the 2nd XI at Warwickshire.{{cite book |last1=Moyes |first1=Arthur |title=Be The Best You Can Be: A History of Sport in Hatfield College, Durham University |date=2007 |publisher=Hatfield College Trust |location=Durham |page=101}}
He started his financial career as a broker for the former American investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert in 1983, and later worked in the wealth management division for six years for the British investment bank Barclays.{{cite web|url=https://www.financedublin.com/summit/2018/speaker-biog/Jake-Pugh|publisher=Finance Dublin|accessdate=10 August 2019|title=The Pugh View|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190810105945/https://www.financedublin.com/summit/2018/speaker-biog/Jake-Pugh|archive-date=10 August 2019|url-status=live}} Pugh has also worked as a managing director for the futures division of ICAP.{{cite news|url=https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/lse-swap-futures-gain-momentum-20140904|publisher=Financial News|date=4 September 2014|last=Cave|first=Tim|accessdate=10 August 2019|title=Clearing expert exits LSE futures project|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190810120315/https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/lse-swap-futures-gain-momentum-20140904|archive-date=10 August 2019|url-status=live}}
He is the director of PughView Ltd, a strategy consultancy.{{cite web|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07442927/officers|title=Pughview Limited|publisher=Companies House|accessdate=10 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190711111543/https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07442927/officers|archive-date=11 July 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.jakepughview.com/consulting-services/|publisher=PughView|title=Consulting services|accessdate=10 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190601191015/http://www.jakepughview.com/consulting-services/|archive-date=1 June 2019|url-status=live}}
Political career
In the 1997 general election, he contested the Richmond Park constituency on behalf of the Eurosceptic Referendum Party. Pugh was fourth in the election with 1,467 votes (2.6%).{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/vote2001/results_constituencies/constituencies/481.stm|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=10 August 2019|title=Richmond Park|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119044031/http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/vote2001/results_constituencies/constituencies/481.stm|archive-date=19 November 2015|url-status=live}} He voted for Jeremy Corbyn in the 2015 Labour Party leadership election.{{cite web|title=Just voted for Jeremy Corbyn as next leader of the Labour Party|url=https://twitter.com/jake_pugh/status/641504722852184064|publisher=Jake Pugh (Twitter)|accessdate=16 August 2019|date=8 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525221248/https://twitter.com/jake_pugh/status/641504722852184064|archive-date=25 May 2019|url-status=live}}
Pugh voted for Brexit in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum. He supports Brexit as he felt that the European Union was undemocratic, and protectionist.{{cite AV media|url=https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1135843183835975680|publisher=Brexit Party|time=34 minutes|title=The Future of British Steel|access-date=10 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190604093841/https://twitter.com/nigel_farage/status/1135843183835975680|archive-date=4 June 2019|url-status=live}} In the 2019 European parliamentary election, Pugh stood as a candidate for the Brexit Party in the Yorkshire and Humber constituency. He was third on his party's list, and was elected as one of its three MEPs in the constituency.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48081687|title=2019 European elections: List of candidates for Yorkshire and the Humber|publisher=BBC News|date=28 April 2019|accessdate=10 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190619222907/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48081687|archive-date=19 June 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/uk/yorkshire-and-the-humber-backs-the-brexit-party-at-european-elections-but-labour-lib-dems-and-green-also-win-seats-1-9790034|title=Yorkshire and the Humber backs the Brexit Party at European elections – but Labour, Lib Dems and Green also win seats|work=The Yorkshire Post|date=27 May 2019|accessdate=10 August 2019|last=Blow|first=John|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190708155912/https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/uk/yorkshire-and-the-humber-backs-the-brexit-party-at-european-elections-but-labour-lib-dems-and-green-also-win-seats-1-9790034|archive-date=8 July 2019|url-status=live}}
In the European parliament, Pugh was a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
In August 2020, Pugh argued that the UK should change its foreign policy towards the EU by "doing everything we can to undermine the EU economically, militarily and politically."
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