THE Women’s Equality Party is launching a Cornwall branch on Saturday (September 2).

The national party’s leader Sophie Walker will be giving a speech about the party and its plans at a launch event at the Sea View Suite of the St Austell Conference Centre between 1pm and 5pm.

The theme of the event is ‘Women in Cornwall’ and it will include workshops and ideas discussions.

Cornwall organiser Emma Bray said: ‘We have many members and supporters in the region but until now the closest branch was in Exeter and that’s too far away for most people to attend meetings.

‘Because ours is an activist party we want to make sure our members can get together and work together whenever they need to.

‘For Cornwall, it means that we can highlight local issues and we can start to raise their profile in order to make a difference and facilitate change.’

The event is open to existing WEP members and supporters, plus anyone who is interested in finding out more about the party - and that includes men as well as women.

You can register your interest in attending on the event page at www.womensequality.org.uk/crn_launchsept17