Cost of Living Survey

By Liam Challenger | 07/03/2022

The Conservatives have failed on energy and working families are footing the bill. Labour would take fully-funded measures to reduce price rises saving most households around £200 or more…

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Stop Van Tool Theft

By RDLPadmin | 29/07/2018

    I am supporting the campaign by local trades people who are calling for action to stop tool theft from vans, which is an increasing problem. Theft from commercial vehicles has a huge impact on tradespeople and small businesses in Reading. Not only is there a high cost in time and money to replace tools…

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Reading Schools Improving Despite National Cuts

By RDLPadmin | 26/02/2018

Reading Labour is continuing its work with all our schools to en-sure they are delivering for the town’s children. In 2017 the town’s secondary schools matched or bettered their GCSE results from the previous year, while primary schools shot up 80 places in the national league tables with improved Key Stage 2 results. Work to…

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Local Services Hit By Tory Cuts

By RDLPadmin | 26/02/2018

The savage Tory cuts to local council grants has hit Labour-run Reading harder than our neighbouring Tory councils. Reading has lost more than twice as much money per person than Wokingham. The Tory government are continuing their unjustified and savage cuts to local authority budgets. Funding has been slashed in Reading by £237 per resident,…

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Our schools under pressure

By Gavin Aldrich | 28/07/2017

A key concern raised time and again during the general election was the cuts in real terms to school budgets. Up and down the country parents and guardians expressed increasing concern that their children’s education was being compromised by austerity led cuts eating into the education budget. The Government has cut school funding by £2.8 billion since…

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