Trish Thomas, Chair of Reading & District Labour Party, has thanked Parliamentary candidates Naz Sarkar and Anneliese Dodds, and the Party's candidates for Borough elections in Reading and Wokingham, for their "huge efforts" leading up to the elections on 6 May.
"The results in Reading West and Reading East were not what we had hoped for," she says, "though actually reflecting a swing against Labour in the region as a whole, but that shouldn't take away from our Parliamentary candidates who worked tirelessly from the point at which they were selected right through to the end. It was a tough campaign for us, but, , we ended it in good spirits and well up for the new challenges ahead."
Trish Thomas added that she was very pleased with the results in the Reading Borough Council elections, in which Labour retained its position as the largest party, with 19 Councillors, and the Tories dropping down to 17, with the LibDems on 9 and the Greens on 1 and felt that this result reflected the long relationship that the Labour Party has developed, always working hard for the people of the town.
Jo Lovelock, re-elected as Leader of the Labour Group together with Deputy Leader Tony Page, adds: "Labour won six seats, and came second in another five, with 21,000 voters across town looking to us to protect them and their families in these difficult times. I am in discussion with the other party leaders as to who should now form the Council's Cabinet, but it would be an odd contrast to the national situation if the Lib-Dems locally formed an alliance with the local Tory party which now has less seats - I think local people would find that very difficult to understand."
For details of the election results in the Parliamentary and Reading Borough elections please visit www.reading.gov.uk
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