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A YORKSHIRE Labour councillor has quit the party saying it has abandoned its “fundamental principles” and will stand as a Respect candidate in the general election.
Bradford councillor Asama Javed will stand as a parliamentary candidate in neighbouring Halifax, West Yorkshire.
The seat has been held by Linda Riordan since 2005, but the left Labour-Co-op MP will be standing down in May due to ill health.
Labour’s replacement candidate in May is Holly Walker-Lynch.
Cllr Javed said she quit Labour because the party had abandoned the “fundamental principles” which attracted her as a teenager.
“I don’t feel as if I’ve left the party, rather the party has left me,” she said.
“I cannot be a member of an organisation that breaches all its fundamental principles.
Labour’s Halifax majority in 2010 was 1,472 over the Tories.
