John Spellar is MP for Warley

Gurinder @gsjosan hits the ground running

Great start to your campaign and Parliamentary career @gsjosan

a great choice , an outstanding campaigner who will make a considerable contribution in Smethwick, the West Midlands and Westminster

I informed the Labour Party I do not intend to contest the GE. It has been an honour & pleasure to have worked for the great people of Smethwick & Oldbury for over 30 years, and also as a Govt Minister. I look forward to continuing to play an active role in the Labour Movement

a relentless investigator and massive loss for Northern Labour and Defence

happy to have played my part but it was a great Labour Group and team who worked their socks off and good energetic leadership in West Brom area from @SarahCoombesWB

looks like Sandwell vote carried Richard Parker across the line

well said Tahir, now let's focus on getting rid of TORY candidate for Mayor , Andy Street

Union Flag flies outside our office all the year round except for St George's Day and Black Country Day, Proud of Britain, England and the Black Country

Orwell summed it up "They take their cookery from Paris and their opinions from Moscow. In the general patriotism of the country they form a sort of island of dissident thought. England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality "

No complacency but Tories in West Brom seem to be falling apart

Services are broken; from universal credit payments to hospital waiting lists.

The PM clearly hasn't got a clue!

Britain isn't Working.

#BiW #PMQs #ToryShambles

after this defining tweet from Ann Black no one has any excuse for not being clear what the issues are in the Lawson case

having been reselected last year overwhelmingly and endorsed by the NEC for the new seat of Smethwick I can assure you that rumours of my demise are much exaggerated , you need more reliable sources

scrolling through Council election results am struck by how many Tory candidates were trying to distance themselves from this shambolic Govt by describing themselves as "Local Conservatives"

same with Sandwell , desperate Sunak claims Tory success in Sandwell , out of 24 seats LABOUR won 22 ( and 7 out of 7 in Warley) , in any other universe that's a landslide

Today I told the Government, again, to get a move on in cracking down on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps #IRGCterorrists #IRGC #Iran

you might wan't to reflect that PR enabled Farage to become MEP , while First-Past -The-Post kept him out of the Commons

End Trophy Hunting now!

#trophyhunting #johnspellar #BackTheBill #EndTrophyHunting

should be announcing this to a recalled Parliament , not a chaotic Tory Conference

The new Foreign Sec @JamesCleverly and new PM @trussliz , must make it clear to the Indian Authorities that they must either take the case to open court for a fair trial, or let Jagtar Singh Johal go free to return to his family in the UK.

#JagtarSinghJohal #detention #India

well Richard i know you were only at primary school in the 80's but the lesson from those years is that all the demos, protests and strikes didn't get rid of a Tory Government only a General Election win by an electable Labour Party

GREAT NEWS as Labor to form majority Government in Australia , UK now only Tory administration in Five Eyes

Just a shame Jon that you've spent most of your life using your organisational skills trying to make Britain's social democratic party unelectable with your ultra-left fantasies

Obviously Boris can't bring himself to point out that Bevin was a great LABOUR Foreign Sec backed to the hilt in creating NATO by Great LABOUR PM Clem Attlee

2 December Leader of House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg clearly told me “ that it is Government policy to ban the importing of hunting trophies and that legislation is likely to come forward in the fullness of time “ but now has been revealed that this has been shamefully abandoned

U-turn on import of hunting trophies has let down vast majority of people in this country, and MP’s from all parties , who want to see this vile trade stopped. They can be assured that I will bring this Bill back in the next session of Parliament and shame Govt into backing it

shame you didn't show the same concern during the Corbyn/Formby era

Disgracefully – for the second time – the Government have blocked my bill to ban the importing of hunting trophies, despite the huge public support for it.

This lot never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Labour have come second in North Shropshire at the last three General Elections. Any suggestion we should stand down is ridiculous.

As I told @GBNEWS earlier, I look forward to campaigning on Thursday for @btwodo our fantastic local candidate.

The Government whips blocked my Bill to ban the import of hunting trophies.

We don't need any more dither and delay. I will continue to press them to bring legislation to Parliament ASAP!!

Jeremy Hunt now concerned about care home broken rip-off business model, wasn't he Health Sec from 2012-2018 ,hadn't the Southern Cross collapse already revealed the rot in the system , and WHAT DID HE DO ABOUT IT

winning in Worthing demonstrates clearly why Labour is, and must be a Party for all parts of the country and contest EVERY seat that comes up ,no excuses

The Government should back my bill to ban the vile practice of importing hunting trophies without any further dither or delay.

The PM was presented with an easy political win and after the week he’s had I thought he would jump at the opportunity to do the right thing.

not diminishing the role of the North but the Industrial Revolution started in the West Midlands with the steam engines produced in the Soho Works of Boulton and Watt in Smethwick

the manic , over the top, response from Momentum extremists to Keir's sensible proposals should clarify for mainstream delegates why they are important and should be supported

Jon helpfully reminds us that both Tony Benn and CLPD backed the electoral College

the madness of King Lennie

same old stuff we heard in the early 60s and 90s that Labour can't win again, wrong then, wrong now , just an excuse to avoid making real choices

Any Questions from the complacent United Left dominated Unite Executive as to how, and why, Howard has cost them the over £2million for this case ?

The Anas effect , Labour surge in Airdrie

if Unite have had to pay £1.3m costs to Anna Turley's lawyers how much have their own costs been , so the total must have been well over £2 million ,are the United Left dominated Exec going to demand answers? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/13/unite-blogger-must-pay-former-labour-mp-13m-legal-costs-libel-case

remembering John Smith The Great Prime Minister we never had

Biden has achieved more in two months than those who like to trumpet their radicalism manage in a lifetime. And he’s done it because he understands something that eludes so many. He understands that the greatest hope is power.

The true radical is not the fiery deliverer of revolutionary speeches or writer of maximalist manifestos. The true radical is the one who wins power and uses it for good.

Increasing repression in India as activist arrested by Police on Saturday over a shared document to help farmers protest against new agricultural laws.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal described arrest as an "unprecedented attack on democracy" #FarmersProtest

Well done Tan , we need to bring the demand for Justice for Farmers in India to the floor of the Commons urgently to press for Government action

look forward to joining colleagues later today to show Solidarity with Farmers in India

maybe the "UK's longest-serving health secretary" would like to enlighten us as to why we were so unprepared for a health pandemic that was supposed to be No1 on the Risk Register ?

So buy Australian wine and also help our Aussie friends face down the Chinese boycott