EXCLUSIVE: Today I unearthed past comments of Paulette Hamilton - the frontrunner to become the next MP for Birmingham Erdington in tomorrow's by-election.
Speaking at a panel event in 2015 entitled "The Ballot or the Bullet: Does Your Vote Count", Hamilton expressed views that appear to suggest she is ‘torn’ between the democratic system and what she calls ‘an uprising’.
At the same event - a year after the so-called Trojan Horse scandal broke - Hamilton also spoke about infiltration, of taking over governorships, changing headteachers, and inserting their religio-political views into those schools that they took over.
On Hamilton's Trojan horse comments, a Labour Party spokesperson said: “These comments were made two years before the full facts of the case were known and so are clearly out of date.”
And on Hamilton's 'ballot or bullet' comments, a Labour Party spokesperson said: “Paulette Hamilton is arguing for better representation for the black community in public life and as she is campaigning to become Birmingham's first black MP she has a point.”
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