THE Labour Party deputy leader Harriet Harman visited Netherton and Halesowen this week to mark the launch of the party's Woman to Woman bus tour of the West Midlands.

Ms Harman was joined by Mary Creagh MP, shadow transport secretary, and former MP for Halesowen and Rowley Regis and former deputy speaker of the House of Commons, Sylvia Heal.

Labour's Dudley South candidate Natasha Milward welcomed the group to The Savoy Centre, Northfield Road on Monday lunchtime where she spoke to several women.

The group then headed to Halesowen where they met care-workers and their GMB representatives to talk about GMB’s campaign on improving care workers’ terms and conditions and pay.

They then campaigned on the High Street with Labour's Halesowen and Rowley Regis candidate Stephanie Peacock.

Ms Harman said: "I really enjoyed my time in Netherton and had some really important and heartfelt conversations with the women I met.

"They rightly want to know what we in Westminster can do to improve their lives and they want their voices heard whether it be at work, at the school gates or in their own lives where they have so many responsibilities in the home."

She added: "I told them that their vote really counts, in the last election 790,000 women in the West Midlands did not vote and if they had it could have changed the result totally."

And Ms Harman, who has long championed more women being elected to Parliament, said: "The Black Country is lucky to have two excellent candidates in Natasha Millward and Stephanie Peacock, they will be a credit to Dudley South and Halesowen and Rowley Regis when they are elected."