Clive
Reading FC
Statement from Clive Jones on the concerning situation at Reading Football Club:
16 Mar 2024
Clive Jones
I’ve lived in the Wokingham area for over 40 years and actually met my wife while playing for the Henley hockey club in the 80s and 90s. Our two children were born at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and, like me, attended local schools. I've had a great career in the UK and European toy industry before taking early retirement.
It’s really important to me to give something back to the community. As well as being a councillor and leader of Wokingham Borough Council, I've helped raise over £800,000 for cancer charities. After being diagnosed with cancer in 2008, and having a daughter who is a physio, I understand how much we all need and rely on our NHS, and how hard healthcare professionals work. I’ve made fixing the NHS my top priority, and have been campaigning to ensure funding for the promised new Royal Berkshire Hospital is delivered.
From my campaigning and speaking to thousands of residents I also know how hard people are finding this cost-of-living crisis. As leader of Wokingham Borough Council I made sure we delivered real action to those in need, including providing free school meals during holidays, and ringfencing £250,000 to help those most in need.
People are furious about the continuous dumping of sewage into our rivers whilst water company executives receive huge bonuses. I’ve been campaigning for water companies to clean up their own mess and to stop the sewage scandal.
I stepped down from the council in May 2024 to spend even more time talking to residents and understanding their concerns in the run up to the general election. I want to represent the people of Wokingham directly, I know the people and I know their concerns. I intend to be a hard-working, local MP for Wokingham. I will fight for a fair deal for our community and prioritise the issues that residents have told me matter most.
Fighting to fix our local NHS
Clive Jones has made safeguarding our local NHS his top priority. It's personal for Clive because he relied on local health services when he was diagnosed with cancer 15 years ago.
Tackling the cost of living
As leader of Wokingham Borough he helped deliver real action to support those in need, providing free school meals during holidays, helping people directly with £150,000 in funding for those most at risk, and opening warm spaces through the winter.
Protecting our environment
Clive Jones is fighting to make sure water companies clean up our rivers.
Clive in action
Hawkedon
Clive Jones to step down from WBC to concentrate on the general election campaign
Clive Jones, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for Wokingham, will not be standing for re-election to Wokingham Borough Council in the local election on 2 May 2024.
3 Mar 2024
NHS
From the campaign trail - What kind of new hospital do you want?
In 2019 the Conservative government promised 40 new hospitals by 2030 with a new Royal Berks to be one of them. They have not delivered on this promise – in fact we are told that rather than opening by 2030 work may not even have started by then.
19 Feb 2024
NHS
Lack of NHS dentists continues in Wokingham
Registering with an NHS dentist and getting treatment continues to be a problem in Wokingham. Over a year ago after Munira Wilson the Lib Dem MP for Twickenham mentioned the lack of NHS dentists in Wokingham in Parliament.
12 Feb 2024
NHS
Figures reveal GP funding slashed in Wokingham since 2019
Funding for GP practices in the integrated care board area of Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire which included Wokingham has been slashed by £20,394,409 in real terms since 2019
31 Jan 2024
Clive
Candidate who stood against John Redwood in 1987 returns to Wokingham.
Candidate who stood against John Redwood in 1987 has returned to the area to help the campaign team to help the campaign team to elect a Liberal Democrat MP for Wokingham.
17 Jan 2024
Contact details:
email: clive.jones.mp@parliament.uk
Contact address: Clive Jones, Wokingham Borough Liberal Democrats, Unit 10, Indigo House, Wokingham, RG41 2GY