Navendu Mishra was the Labour Party’s parliamentary candidate for Hazel Grove at the 2017 General Election, where he is the party’s BAME Officer and an activist with Unite trade union.
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.