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The Respect Party was a left-wing to far-left socialist political party active in the United Kingdom between 2004 and 2016. At the height of its success in 2007, the party had one Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons and nineteen councillors in local government .
Apr 5, 2010 · The party's name is an acronym, standing for respect, equality, socialism, peace, environment, community, trade unionism. Respect says it stands for peace, publicly-owned...
Aug 23, 2016 · The Respect Party, launched 12 years ago as a platform for opposing the Iraq war, has ceased to be. After it lost its only parliamentary seat in the 2015 election, the party has “voluntarily...
Set up as recently as 2004, The RESPECT Party is the brainchild of controversial MP George Galloway - a one-time Labour member of parliament who was expelled from the party due to his outspoken views on privatisation and Labour education policy.
Apr 8, 2021 · He stood as the Respect Party candidate in the Bradford West by-election in 2012, and won the seat from Labour.
Mar 5, 2024 · Galloway, who represents the hard-left, fringe Workers Party of Britain, which he founded in 2019, took the constituency of Rochdale with 12,335 votes or 39.7 percent of the vote.
Mar 1, 2024 · But what does the party stand for? Mr Galloway - a former Labour and Respect MP - is the founder and leader of the WPB. It was set up in 2019, after Labour's defeat in the general election to ...
