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.
He tried and failed to win Bradford West,[1] the constituency taken by George Galloway in 2012 in a landslide victory.
[2][3] Ali stood down as the national chair in December 2012 after it emerged he had a spent conviction for electoral fraud.
[2] In 1997, Ali was in jail for six weeks following his conviction for electoral fraud.
[4] Later, he stood for election to a City Council seat as a Respect Party candidate in Bradford in 2014, but failed.