George Leonard Reakes JP (31 July 1889 – 15 April 1961[1]) was a British politician.
Reakes entered local politics while working as a journalist for a group of Cheshire newspapers.
He resigned from the Labour Party on the question of rearmament immediately prior to the Second World War.
In 1942, he left his job in postal censorship to contest the Wallasey by-election as an Independent and was elected, defeating the National Government candidate John Pennington by 6,012 votes.
Reakes was a magistrate for nearly twenty years and later became chairman of the Wallasey Juvenile Court.