Birmingham Erdington.

Paulette Hamilton made her most visible recent stand on assisted dying, voting against her party's majority at Third Reading in June 2025 to block the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill -- one of five rebel votes she cast that day. She also broke with the Labour majority on a related amendment designed to close a loophole around voluntary starvation, though the pattern of those votes is slightly tangled: on two near-identical amendments addressing the same loophole, she voted in opposite directions to the party majority, suggesting she was navigating competing versions of the same safeguard rather than shifting position. Her 98.4% overall party alignment makes these assisted dying votes a rare but deliberate departure.

Beyond that rebellion, Hamilton is a consistently engaged MP -- voting in 85% of divisions, above the Commons average -- and a reliable Labour loyalist on most fronts. Her speeches cluster heavily around health, social care, crime, and local government. She sits on the Health and Social Care Committee, which reinforces a focus that predates her time in Westminster: as a former nurse and Birmingham councillor who championed vaccination uptake, her parliamentary health work carries professional backing. She votes strongly for workers' rights and progressive taxation, and weakly in favour of business-friendly positions -- broadly in line with the Labour left.

Her constituency faces acute health pressures -- West Midlands premature death rates are among the UK's highest -- and Hamilton has been publicly vocal about this as a Health Equals Parliamentary Champion. Recent local news (63 articles in 90 days) centres on transport, crime, and local government rather than her personal activity, so constituency sentiment is hard to read directly. Parliamentary speech data runs to April 2026; voting data extends to May 2026.