AN MP joined campaigners on the doorsteps on Wokingham Without on May Day, aiming to give her party’s candidate a last-minute boost.
With the local elections on Thursday, May 4, the Liberal Democrats were in the ward on Monday, following a declaration of support last week from Conservative councillor Marc Brunel-Walker, who is intending to vote for Jordan Montgomery.
Sarah Green, who won a parliamentary byelection in Chesham & Amersham for the Liberal Democrats, knocked on doors, talked to residents and met canvassers as part of her visit.
“I wanted to come to support the Lib Dem Parliamentary candidate Clive Jones who has a really chance of becoming the next MP for Wokingham,” she said in a statement.
“Knocking on doors I found that many residents were switching from the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats.
“Many said that they were pleased with the way the Lib Dems had run the council in the last year, especially the way in which they had managed the councils’ finances and balanced the budgets, something that the Conservatives had failed to do.”
Wokingham Lib Dem leader Cllr Clive Jones, who is not contesting a seat in this election, said: “We were really pleased that Sarah was able to visit us considering her busy Parliamentary schedule.
“Quite a number of us helped in her historic by election result in June 2021 when Sarah and the Lib Dems smashed the Conservative blue wall, so it was great to see her again.
“We hope to be able to do the same in Wokingham.”
Cllr Chris Bowring is standing again in the seat, having previously represented Evendons ward.
In a statement to the local democracy reporting service, he said: “My campaign is going very well. I’m getting very good reactions on the doorstep. People are concerned about the Liberal Democrats’ failure to take note of people’s views.”
He added, for example “they didn’t give voters the opportunity to say whether they wish to keep weekly bin collections”.
Also standing is Labour’s Rona Noble.
