Mark Reckless
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Mark Reckless AM |
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| UKIP Economics Spokesman | |
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Assumed office 12 August 2015 |
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| Leader |
Nigel Farage |
| Preceded by | Patrick O'Flynn |
| UKIP Head of Policy | |
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Assumed office 12 August 2015 |
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| Preceded by | position established |
| Member of the Welsh Assembly for South Wales East | |
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Assumed office 5 May 2016 |
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| Leader | Neil Hamilton |
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Member of Parliament for Rochester and Strood |
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In office 6 May 2010 – 30 March 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Bob Marshall-Andrews (Medway) |
| Succeeded by | Kelly Tolhurst |
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| Born |
Mark John Reckless 6 December 1970 London, England |
| Political party |
UKIP (2014–present) Conservative (until 2014) |
| Spouse(s) | Catriona Brown |
| Alma mater |
Christ Church, Oxford The University of Law Columbia Business School |
| Website | www |
Nigel Farage
Diane James (Elect)
Mark John Reckless (born 6 December 1970) is a UK Independence Party (UKIP) Member of the National Assembly for Wales, representing South Wales East. He was previously elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Rochester and Strood in the 2010 general election, joined UKIP in September 2014, won re-election as a UKIP member in November 2014, but lost his seat to the Conservatives in the May 2015 UK general election.
While a Conservative MP, Reckless was noted for his rebelliousness; he cast 56 votes against the whip between 2010 and 2014, making him the 13th most rebellious Conservative in the period. He led a rebellion of 53 Conservative MPs on the EU budget, which inflicted the first House of Commons defeat on the coalition government. From November 2010 he served as a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee.
Reckless was educated at Marlborough College before going up to Christ Church, Oxford, where he read philosophy, politics and economics. He then pursued postgraduate studies at Columbia Business School in the United States receiving an MBA. At Columbia, he studied alongside writer Jacob Appel and is the subject of several thinly-veiled anecdotes in Appel's satire, The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up.
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