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Member of Parliament Owen Smith has said he is considering quitting the Labour Party, over Jeremy Corbyn’s handling of Brexit. However, in 2016, he told I Am Birmingham he was “Labour to my boots” and “there’s no alternative… outside the Labour Party that can deliver for working people”; agreeing that resigning was “a drastic reaction”.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn visited Walsall Beeches Club this week, addressing a cheering and over-capacity crowd of Walsall residents. The Labour leader was kicking off Labour’s programme of community organising in Walsall North – which will be led by Labour’s parliamentary candidate in the constituency, Gill Ogilvie – but unsurprisingly, so many people had turned up to see…
At a rally at Walsall Beeches Club on Monday afternoon, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn addressed a cheering crowd of Walsall residents. The Labour leader was kicking off Labour’s programme of community organising in Walsall North, which will be led by Labour’s parliamentary candidate in the constituency, Gill Ogilvie.
As temperatures plummeted across the country this week and schools were out on account of heavy snowfall, out came an army of frozen snowmen raised across front yards, back gardens and public parks. And it wouldn’t quite be a very British winter without some snow sculpture tributes to popular culture figureheads.