More than a decade of Tory cuts to local policing and vital services have left a knife crime epidemic in areas like ours. The impact has been felt in communities like ours with the B23 postcode reporting the highest number of knife crime incidents last year.

The Tories have cut funding and youth provisions. Communities in Erdington, Kingstanding and Castle Vale, and young people across the UK, deserve better.

Watch Paulette speech in full on the YouTube link above.