Arshad Ali (British politician)

Arshad Ali is a British psychologist, political activist and politician who was the leader of the Respect Party from November 2012 until December 2012, when he was forced to resign after evidence of a prior conviction for election fraud came to light.

Ali was a longstanding Respect campaigner, having contested on council elections in Bradford's Manningham ward in 2007 and in the general election in 2010. He tried and failed to win Bradford West,^[1] the constituency taken by George Galloway in 2012 in a landslide victory.