Paulette Hamilton became the country’s 1st Black Female MP to represent a Birmingham constituency  by winning the Birmingham Erdington by-election for Labour. Paulette 9,413 votes, ahead of Tory candidate and leader of the Conservative group on the city council Robert Alden with 6,147.

Councillor Sandra Samuels is the first politician of African Caribbean heritage to hold the post in 200 years. Following a four-decade career working as a nurse, theatre sister and manager in the NHS, she became a councillor in 2004 and currently currently represents the Ettingshall ward for the Labour Party.
In 2015, she was presented with an OBE by the Queen for services to local government and politics.

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