the RESPECT party

Recommended article: The defeat of Labour leader Ian Greenwood in the Bradford council local elections and his deputy leader Imran Hussain in the Bradford West by-election – both by Respect party candidates – ushers in the chance of new political possibilities in the city. Ratna Lachman writes in The Guardian
We cannot yet be sure whether Bradford is setting a new political template nationally by breaking the stranglehold of the three-party politics bunched up to the centre-right of the political spectrum, or whether the Respect victories at the by-election and council polls are just a local and temporary phenomenon.

What is certain is that the Respect party's succession of victories has shaken up the political establishment and highlighted the need for local leaders to wake from political stupor and stand up as champions for a city that appears to be in terminal economic decline.