WESTMINSTER DIARY: An increase in the Living Wage is welcome
This week the government announced a 5% rise in the National Living Wage to £8.21 an hour. The Minimum Wage for younger employees aged between 21 and 24 years was...
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Pressure group Leave.eu calling for Dr Phillip Lee’s deselection for being a Remainer
A CAMPAIGN to unseat Remain-supporting MP Dr Phillip Lee has almost gained enough support to force a deselection meeting and organisers said that they make no apologies for doing so....
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BREXIT: Sir John Redwood’s dismay after Channel 4 cuts him short over No Deal interview
https://twitter.com/channel4news/status/1114231615838916614 SIR JOHN REDWOOD has hit back at Channel 4 after a live interview was cut short last night. Newscaster Krishnan Guru-Murthy was speaking with the Wokingham MP about Brexit....
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BREXIT: Dr Phillip Lee says Government should not have dismissed 6 million strong Article 50 petition in ‘such a cavalier manner’
As Parliament prepares for another day of Brexit debates in a bid to unlock a way forward, Bracknell MP - and remainer - Dr Phillip Lee has express his concerns...
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15,000 homes for Grazeley: Nothing has been agreed or accepted says Wokingham council leader
‘NOTHING has been agreed or accepted” over plans to build a new 15,000-home town in Grazeley. That’s the view of Conservative group leader Cllr Julian McGhee-Sumner. On Monday, Minister of...
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PEOPLE’S VOTE MARCH: Pictures taken by Wokingham folk in London on Saturday, March 23
READING EAST MP Matt Rodda was one of the speakers at a rally designed to change the Prime Minister’s mind on Brexit. Mr Rodda spoke at the Put It To...
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BREXIT: Wokingham borough MPs unlikely to back new vote Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement
FOLLOWING a dramatic night in the House of Commons in which Theresa May pledged to resign as Prime Minister if her Brexit plan was passed, local MPs have offered their...
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TONY JOHNSON: Botched It
It’s been said that “democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time”. And as the parliament of owls...
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BREAKING: Theresa May to stand down as Prime Minister
LOCAL MP Theresa May has promised that she will stand down as Prime Minister. She told a meeting of the 1922 committee earlier today that if her Brexit deal was...
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Reading East MP Matt Rodda runs Reading Half in aid of Home Start
READING EAST MP Matt Rodda took some much-needed time out from Brexit matters to run the 2019 Reading Half Marathon. And he had good reason for taking part: he was...
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