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About Mark Reckless
- Mark John Reckless (born 6 December 1970) is a British Brexit Party politician serving as Member of the National Assembly for Wales (AM) for South Wales East since 2016.
- He was previously elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Rochester and Strood in the 2010 general election.
- Reckless crossed the floor to join the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in September 2014; he won re-election as a UKIP member in a by-election held in November 2014, but lost his seat to the Conservatives in the 2015 general election. Whilst a member of the House of Commons, 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. A Eurosceptic, he was elected to the Welsh Assembly in 2016 and campaigned for the Leave side in the 2016 referendum on membership of the European Union.
- He subsequently joined the pro-Brexit Brexit Party and was appointed Leader in the National Assembly by Nigel Farage in 2019.
