David Cameron will be travelling to Reading West to conduct a special health version of one of his town hall style meetings on 8th January.
Unusually for politicians there are no scripts and no planted questions or planted audience members, and David Cameron usually makes the point that he takes the questions one at a time, [...]

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The Reading Post have a video of Labour MP for Reading West, Martin Salter, hard at work during the election for the new speaker this afternoon, it’s a hard job but someone’s got to do it:

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It’s long been known that Martin Salter likes to attend photo opportunities in Reading East, this seems to have been confirmed by a letter to the Reading Chronicle today, signed “Martin Salter MP, Reading East”.
Just to confirm… Martin Salter is the Labour MP for Reading West, Rob Wilson is the Conservative MP for Reading East.

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News has just reached me that Martin Salter, Labour MP for Reading West, is standing down at the next election.
Update 14:00: The story has now been confirmed here and here
Update 14:30: It appears he’s standing down as he thinks the Government is likely to lose the next election: “I’ve given the matter a great deal [...]

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