A SENIOR Lib Dem MP visited Wokingham last month to give their support to their party’s candidate for the new parliamentary seat.
Layla Moran, the party’s foreign affairs spokesperson and MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, dropped in to meet party activists and members and share some campaign trail tips with Clive Jones.
He has been selected by the party to contest the Wokingham seat against the Conservatives’ candidate of Sir John Redwood. Due to boundary changes, this is the first time the seat has been contested in this format. It brings in the wards of Wargrave, Remenham, Hurst, Charvil, Finchampstead, Arborfield and Wokingham Without, as well as Winnersh, Emmbrook, Evendons, Wescott, Norreys, Swallowfield and Spencers Wood, which were already in Wokingham.
Ms Moran was pleased to drop in: “I was delighted to be asked to support Clive’s campaign, he will make an incredible MP and Wokingham needs a Lib Dem MP,” she said.
“This is the time for us to win in Wokingham and we can do this.
“The people of Wokingham desperately need Clive to win so we have an MP who will put the local community first”.
And she told the 60 people gathered for the party’s summer event that her party’s byelection victory in Somerton and Frome was “evidence that voters across the country are fed up with the Conservatives, in particular their mishandling of the economy and the NHS”.
Mr Jones, who is a former leader of Wokingham Borough Council, picked up on Ms Moran’s comments about the health service.
“We desperately need help for the NHS,” he said. “The Conservatives are starving the NHS of money, they are doing the same to all public services.
“You can’t get appointments with GPs and dentists.
“NHS staff are not paid properly and they face equipment shortages. The sooner we can get the Conservatives out of government the better.”
