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Jason Brock

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Jason is the former leader of Reading Borough Council, having spent five years at the helm where he navigated the council through the Covid-19 pandemic despite only becoming a councillor three years prior.
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2024
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Prior to his career in local government, Jason spent 6 years as a Teaching Fellow in the History of Political Thought at the Royal Holloway University in London, and also worked as a Senior Researcher for the Fabian Society.

In his five-year spell as Leader of the Council, Jason has overseen major investments in better facilities for residents. These include Reading’s biggest ever investment in road repairs; the largest Council house building programme in a generation; the modernisation of the town’s leisure facilities, including the construction of two brand new leisure centres; the opening of Reading’s first new railway station in 116 years at Green Park; and a continuation of progress towards a net zero Reading, with a 74% reduction in the Council’s own carbon emissions in just 14 years.

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