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Mark Reckless MP Member of Parliament
for Rochester and StroodIncumbent Assumed office
6 May 2010Preceded by Constituency Created Majority 9,953 (20.7%) Personal details Born 6 December 1970 Nationality British Political party Conservative Alma mater University of Oxford (MA),
College of Law (LLB),
Columbia Business School (MBA)Occupation Politician, barrister, economist Mark John Reckless[1] (born 6 December 1970) is a British Conservative Party politician who is the Member of Parliament for Rochester and Strood, elected at the 2010 general election.
He graduated in PPE from Oxford University; he also has an MBA from Columbia Business School. He trained as a barrister at the College of Law, gaining an LLB, and was called to the Bar in 2007.
Reckless apologised for missing a budget vote because he was too drunk to vote during a late night sitting of the House of Commons.[2]
On 10 December 2010, Reckless voted against the coalition government on raising tuition fees.[3]
Reckless is rated as one of the Conservatives' most rebellious MPs.[4]
Personal life
Reckless is the grandson of Henry McDevitt, a Fianna Fáil TD for Donegal East in the Dáil Éireann from 1938 until 1943.[5] On 1 October 2011 he married Catriona Brown at Westminster Cathedral, with a reception held at the Palace of Westminster.[6]
References
- ^ http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/59418/notices/1118281/from=2010-05-06;to=2010-05-19;all=returned+westminster/
- ^ "Mark Reckless MP sorry for being 'too drunk to vote'". BBC News. 11 July 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/10590725.stm. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
- ^ http://markreckless.com/2010/12/10/statement-on-tuition-fees/
- ^ http://conservativehome.blogs.com/parliament/2010/12/the-latest-league-table-of-tory-backbench-rebellion.html
- ^ http://markreckless.com/2010/12/05/over-a-third-of-irish-want-to-leave-euro-for-pound/
- ^ "Marriages", The Times, 3 October 2011, p. 53.
External links
Categories:- 1970 births
- Living people
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs
- UK MPs 2010–
- Members of the United Kingdom Parliament for English constituencies
- Alumni of the University of Oxford
- Columbia Business School alumni
- United Kingdom MP stubs
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