Arshad Ali, a British psychologist, political activist and politician, was 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 contesting council elections in Bradford's Manningham ward in 2007 and in the general election in 2010. He tried and failed to win Bradford West, the constituency taken by George Galloway in 2012 in a landslide victory.