The MP in Enoch Powell's old seat of Wolverhampton South West is currently Labour's Eleanor Smith - who became the West Midlands' first female black MP at the last election - and between 2010 and ...

Enoch Powell, who represented Wolverhampton in Parliament, feared a race war coming because of mass immigration. On April 20, 1968, ...

But tensions remained calm as more than 150 people united to discuss Enoch Powell’s legacy. People from across the region packed into the University of Wolverhampton lecture theatre to hear a ...

Fifty years on, were any of Enoch Powell’s predictions correct, ... the editor of the Wolverhampton Express & Star, that he expected his speech to fire into the sky “like a rocket”, ...

Powell's anti-immigration speech, delivered by the then Wolverhampton South West MP, caused a national controversy, prompting his sacking from Edward Heath's shadow cabinet.

There is no statue to Enoch Powell in Wolverhampton. It is 47 years since his most famous/infamous “Rivers of Blood” speech, 41 years since he last represented the city, and 17 since he died.

Controversial plans to commemorate Enoch Powell with a blue plaque in his former constituency have been scrapped after a public outcry. Powell served Wolverhampton South West from 1950 to 1974 and ...

Controversial former MP Enoch Powell could be honoured with a blue plaque. Wolverhampton’s Civic and Historical Society has received an application to commemorate the life of the former MP who ...

Fifty years ago today, on 20 April 1968, the austere shadow defence secretary Enoch Powell MP made a speech in Birmingham. He told his friend, the editor of his local paper, the Wolverhampton ...

Enoch Powell's infamous 'rivers of blood' speech at a Conservative Party meeting in Birmingham in 1968 marked both the end of his chances of holding ministerial office and the birth of an enduring ...

The media attention had been prompted by something Wolverhampton South West MP Enoch Powell had said earlier that month. Two months before his notorious speech of April 1968, ...