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The King opened Parliament on Tuesday, 7 November 2023 which is the start of the new legislative session. Black Rod knocked on the door of the Commons and summoned Members of the House of Commons to the House of Lords to hear the King reading the speech setting out the Government’s legislative agenda for the

As part of Usdaw’s ongoing Freedom From Fear Campaign, I attended the Respect for Shopworkers Week Parliamentary Reception on Monday 13 November 2023 with Paddy Lillis, General Secretary of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) and spoke to him about the issues faced by shopworkers. Violent crime and abuse is a very

I placed a wooden cross in the Constituency Garden of Remembrance in Parliament on behalf of my constituents in Walsall South. On the cross I wrote “We will remember them always”   11 November 2023 commemorates Remembrance Day marking the armistice that ended the First World War. Every year we remember all those who fell in

I supported the GMB campaign for Equal Pay for Asda workers on Friday, 3 November, outside the Asda St. Matthews Superstore alongside Tom Warnett, the National GMB Political Officer. Equal pay is a priority for the GMB Union, and it is an issue that I have campaigned on for many years. That’s why women workers

On Friday 3 November, I organised a meeting with Network Rail, West Midlands Trains, and the Office of the Mayor of the West Midlands at Bescot Stadium Station to discuss the issue of disabled access at the Station.  Denise Wetton, Central Route Director at Network Rail, a representative from West Midlands Trains, Mal Drury-Rose, Director