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Martin Salter's Westminster Diary 
HERE’S a story you won’t read in any national newspaper - Labour won the local elections in Reading last Thursday and once again bucked the national trend.
Even including the small, single-member Tory ward of Mapledurham the results were as follows: Labour: 7 seats, Conservatives: 6 seats, Lib Dems: 3 seats and Greens: no seats.
AMID all the hand-wringing, point-scoring and macho posturing in the wake of the local government elections, there is one statistic which puts all politicians to shame.
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