To Simran Cheema, the local election results felt like “someone had taken a knife to my heart”. “It was really sad,” says the 28-year-old, nursing a cup of tea over the hubbub of a busy Walsall cafe. Cheema is the only Labour councillor remaining on Walsall council after, one by one, a dozen of her colleagues were booted from office on May 7. Reform, which previously had just one seat on the council, now has 40. It is no coincidence that this is Brexit country – a working class, ex-industrial