Save our Local Post Offices Campaign


Sharma welcomes proposal to assist less well-off families with soaring energy bills and help protect local Post Offices

Post Office

Alok Sharma, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Reading West, who recently launched a Cost of Living Survey sent to thousands of homes across the Reading West constituency and last week called on the Government to take urgent action to help those most badly hit by the rising cost of living, especially pensioners and hard-pressed families, gave his strong support this week to new Conservative proposals to help less well-off families with their energy bills.  read more »

Reading West Conservatives deliver post office petition to 10 Downing Street

Alok Sharma, Alan Hawkins and Emma Webster hand in the Post Office Petition at 10 Downing Street

Reading West Conservatives delivered a local petition to 10 Downing Street on 6 July, signed by 630 residents of Southcote, Tilehurst and Purley calling on the Labour Government to reconsider its plans to close local post offices.  read more »

Sharma calls on Salter to vote to suspend post office closures

Post Office

Alok Sharma has written to Martin Salter MP asking him to support the Conservative motion to be debated in Parliament on Wednesday 19 March calling for a suspension of the post office closure programme which has been implemented by Mr. Salter’s Labour Government.  read more »

Sharma calls on Post Office Limited to ensure that closure consultation is a genuine exercise

Lower Tilehurst Post office petition launch

Alok Sharma, the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Reading West has written to Post Office Limited asking them to reconsider plans to close Lower Tilehurst and Wantage Road Post Offices.  read more »

Coronation Square Post Office saved!

Save local post offices

With local post offices in Reading under threat, Alok Sharma the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate in Reading West and local Southcote campaigner Alan Hawkins orgaised and delivered to 10 Downing Street a local petition signed by hundreds of people across Southcote, Tilehurst and Purley calling on the Labour Government to reconsider its plans to close local post offices.  read more »

Sharma continues local petition to save threatened post offices

Save Local Post Offices Campaign

With Lower Tilehurst and Wantage Road post offices now believed to be under threat of closure in Reading West constituency Alok Sharma, the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Reading West, relaunched the petition started earlier in the year to save local post offices, together with local residents outside Lower Tilehurst post office.  read more »

Stop The Labour Government’s Post Office Cuts

Alok supporting Alan Hawkins in Southcote with the petition to protect local post offices

Reading West Conservatives, together with local residents, launched a petition against the threat of closure of local post offices in Reading West constituency.  read more »