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MPs’ budget bender (Or: Reckless by name …)

By Stephen Tall | Mon 12th July 2010 - 2:20 pm

Two new Tory MPs have been publicly named and shamed in today’s papers for getting so drunk that – allegedly – one fell to the floor of the House of Commons bar, while another was rude to a Commons official.

Mark Reckless (for it is he) has ‘fessed up to his own drunkenness, including being so paralytic he missed a Budget vote. The Mail reports:

Worst affected was Mark Reckless, who has been Tory MP for Rochester for just two months. The former banker, who has campaigned to save the ‘Great British pub’, fell to the floor of a Commons bar

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Posted in Parliament | Also tagged mark reckless, rochester and south-east cornwall | 7 Comments

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