Reading Conservatives have launched a stinging attack on their own website after independent analysis showed that it failed the standard tests for colour, 508 Standards and suffered from 47 problems on the WAI scale.

Councillor Andrew Cumpsty, Leader of the Conservative Group, commented "This is a damning indictment of the Reading East Conservatives' website. For some time, local Conservatives have been calling for other sites to be improved and pointing out their flaws, but this shows that we can't be trusted to keep our own house in order before criticising others. For Reading East Conservatives site to fail the standard tests when we pride ourselves on having so many Information Technology professionals in our party, is a disgrace. I hope that urgent action will now be taken to bring the site up to an acceptable standard."