page_title: Walsall
section_title: Politics
hierarchical_section_title: Walsall / Notable residents / Politics
caption_attribution_description: English: Official Parliamentary photograph of Valerie Vaz MP. For confirmation of licence, see https://pds.blog.parliament.uk/2017/07/21/mp-official-portraits-open-source-images
context_page_description: Walsall is a large market town and administrative centre in the county of West Midlands, England. Historically part of Staffordshire, it is located 9 miles north-west of Birmingham, 7 miles east of Wolverhampton and 9 miles from Lichfield.
  Walsall is the administrative centre of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Walsall. At the 2011 census, the town's built-up area had a population of 67,594, with the wider borough having a population of 269,323. Neighbouring settlements in the borough include Darlaston, Brownhills, Pelsall, Willenhall, Bloxwich and Aldridge.
context_section_description: Sir Harmar Nicholls (1912 in Walsall – 2000) Conservative Party politician, MP for Peterborough 1950–1974
  David Ennals, Baron Ennals PC (1922 in Walsall – 1995) Labour Party politician, educated at Queen Mary's Grammar School, MP for Dover 1964–1970 and Norwich North 1974–1983; he served as Secretary of State for Social Services 1976–1979
  John Stonehouse (1925 – 1988) Labour Party politician, MP for Walsall North 1974–1976, notable for his unsuccessful attempt to fake his own death in 1974. Also an agent for the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic military intelligence
  David Winnick (born 1933) Labour Party politician, MP for Walsall North 1979–2017
  Jenny Tonge, Baroness Tonge MD (born 1941 in Walsall) politician, Liberal Democrat MP for Richmond Park in London 1997–2005,  made a life peer in June 2005
  Bruce George (born 1942) Labour Party politician, MP for Walsall South 1974–2010
  Valerie Vaz (born 1954) Labour politician and solicitor MP for Walsall South 2010 to date
  Eddie Hughes (born 1968) Conservative Party politician, MP for Walsall North 2017 to date
caption: Valerie Vaz MP, 2017
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