All People's Party (UK)

Last updated

The All People's Party (APP) was a political party established in the United Kingdom in 2013. When it was founded it had two sitting councillors in the London Borough of Southwark: Althea Smith had formerly been a member of the Labour Party. In the Southwark London Borough Council election, 2014 the APP stood 15 candidates. However, despite gaining 2,828 votes, they failed to get any councillors elected. [1]

The party was established owing to concerns that insufficient participants from ethnic minorities were given leadership roles by the main parties. [1] Their motto is ‘Celebrate diverse people at the top, not just diversity’. [1]

Prem Goyal, the founder of the APP, claimed "the 45 per cent talented minority population in Southwark, which generates 70 per cent of the Labour votes, get only 10 per cent representation at the top decision-making table." This, he stated, translated economically as "for every £1 these hard-working, talented people contribute to Labour, they are only given 13p back." [2]

In the 2015 United Kingdom general election the party stood two candidates in the Southwark constituencies, however failed to gain a substantial number of votes: 826 for Prem Goyal, Camberwell and Peckham and 59 for Dan Cole, Bermondsey and Old Southwark. Goyal had previously been the vice-chair of Bermondsey and Old Southwark Labour Party and only started the APP after he lost the election to become the Labour Party candidate for the constituency. [3]

In March 2017, Prem Goyal stood for election in the City of London in the Court of Common Council elections in Bishopsgate Ward as an Independent candidate and was elected on 23 March 2017. [4]

In December 2017, Goyal stood and won again as an independent candidate in an Aldermanic by-election in Portsoken Ward of the city. [5] [6]

The All People's Party was entered on the Electoral Commission's Register of Political Parties from August 2013 to April 2020. [7]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">City of London Corporation</span> English municipal governing body

The City of London Corporation, officially and legally the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, is the municipal governing body of the City of London, the historic centre of London and the location of much of the United Kingdom's financial sector.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1983 Bermondsey by-election</span>

A by-election was held in the Bermondsey constituency in South London, on 24 February 1983, following the resignation of Labour MP Bob Mellish. Peter Tatchell stood as the candidate for the Labour Party, and Simon Hughes stood for the Liberal Party. Following a bitter campaign, the Liberals made huge gains and took the seat, with a majority of votes cast. Labour's vote fell from 63.6 per cent in May 1979 to 26.1 per cent as Tatchell came a distant second, while the Conservative candidate, Robert Hughes, managed only fourth place, losing his deposit. With a swing of 44.2%, the 1983 Bermondsey by-election remains the largest by-election swing in British political history.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Parliamentary constituencies in London</span>

The region of Greater London, including the City of London, is divided into 73 parliamentary constituencies which are sub-classified as borough constituencies, affecting the type of electoral officer and level of expenses permitted.

Arthur Charles Latham was a British Labour Party politician, who was the MP for Paddington North from 1969 to 1974, and its successor seat, Paddington, from that year until 1979.

Southwark and Bermondsey was an inner city constituency in London, United Kingdom. Its sole Member of Parliament was Simon Hughes, in the first stage of his career in the house, as a Liberal then Liberal Democrat after the party's founding in 1988. It was replaced with the North Southwark and Bermondsey seat in 1997.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alfred Salter</span>

Alfred Salter was a British medical practitioner and Labour Party politician.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Portsoken</span> Ward of the City of London

Portsoken, traditionally referred to with the definite article as the Portsoken, is one of the City of London, England's 25 ancient wards, which are still used for local elections. Historically an extra-mural ward, lying east of the former London Wall, the area is sometimes considered to be part of the East End of London.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Emily Benn</span> British politician

Emily Sophia Wedgwood Benn is an English local politician, who has represented the Ward of Bread Street on the Common Council of the City of London since 2022.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2010 London local elections</span>

Local government elections took place in London, and some other parts of the United Kingdom on Thursday 6 May 2010. Polling stations were open between 7am and 10pm.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2010 Southwark London Borough Council election</span>

Elections for Southwark Council were held on 6 May 2010. The 2010 General Election and other local elections took place on the same day.

The 1964 Southwark Council election took place on 7 May 1964 to elect members of Southwark London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party gained control of the council.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rowenna Davis</span> British politician and journalist (born 1985)

Rowenna Davis is a Labour Party politician. She is currently a councillor representing Waddon ward in the London Borough of Croydon. She has worked as a teacher and political journalist. She has previously been a Labour councillor for the London Borough of Southwark and contested the parliamentary seat of Southampton Itchen in the 2015 general election. She has written numerous articles for publications such as the New Statesman, The Guardian, The Sun and The Economist. In 2011, Davis authored Tangled Up in Blue, an examination of the rise of the Blue Labour movement.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2017 City of London Corporation election</span> Elections to the Court of Common Council of the City of London Corporation on 22 March 2017

The 2017 City of London Corporation election took place on 23 March 2017 to elect members of the Court of Common Council in the City of London Corporation. The election was the first time apart from a 2014 by-election that partisan candidates were elected to the body. Fifteen of the hundred seats on the council were won by political parties: the newly created Temple & Farringdon Together party and the Labour Party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Campbell-Taylor</span> British politician and Church of England priest

William Campbell-Taylor is an Anglican priest, writer and former Labour Party councillor, currently serving as the vicar of St Thomas' Church in Clapton Common.

Portsoken Ward is an electoral district in the City of London, England.. It returns an Alderman and four Councilmen to the Court of Common Council of the City of London Corporation.

The City of London Corporation elections occur regularly to provide the elected representatives who run the City of London Corporation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2022 City of London Corporation election</span> 2022 local election in the City of London

The 2022 City of London Corporation election took place on 24 March 2022 to elect members of the Court of Common Council in the City of London Corporation, England. The election was postponed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2022 London local elections</span>

The 2022 London local elections took place on 5 May 2022, as part of the 2022 United Kingdom local elections. All London borough councillor seats were up for election. Mayoral elections took place in Hackney, Lewisham, Newham and Tower Hamlets, with Croydon electing a mayor for the first time following a local referendum in October 2021.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2022 Croydon London Borough Council election</span> 2022 local election in Croydon

In the 2022 Croydon London Borough Council election, on 5 May 2022, all 70 members of Croydon London Borough Council, and the Mayor of Croydon, were up for election. The elections took place alongside the local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom. Jason Perry of the Conservative Party narrowly won the mayoral election.

The 2022 Southwark London Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022. All 63 members of Southwark London Borough Council were elected. The elections took place alongside local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Goyal, Prem. "All People's Party – gathering momentum in Southwark". www.obv.org.uk. Operation Black Vote. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  2. ↑ Goyal, Prem (23 October 2013). "Prem Goyal: "The All People's Party is not about me"". Inside Croydon. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  3. ↑ Gill, james (22 October 2013). "One more vote and Goyal may not have played the race card". Inside Croydon. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  4. ↑ In March 2017, Prem Goyal stood for election in the City of London in the Court of Common Council elections in Bishopsgate Ward as an Independent candidate and was elected on 23 March 2017 Archived 2017-11-09 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ "Statement of Persons Nominated" (PDF). www.cityoflondon.gov.uk. City of London Corporation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 December 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  6. ↑ "Prem Goyal (Alderman)". www.cityoflondon.gov.uk. City of London Corporation. Archived from the original on 2 June 2021. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  7. ↑ View Registration - All People's Party Electoral Commission Register of Political Parties
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.