Warning - 'The anti-establishment is coming'

Independent Preston South East county councillor Almas Razakazi says she believes the message being sent by Your Party will resonate in the city and might pack more of a punch with the power of a party behind it than when articulated by individual independent candidates - effective as that strategy was for her and her colleagues in May.

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"[During the local election campaign], I spoke to everyone on the doorstep as a working class person who just wanted to represent their communities.

"We're only going to break through by having those individual conversations...but to put it in a blunt way, [a party] gives you more clout. If you have their backing, it gives people more faith in you

"Also, it can't be [forgotten] how grassroots our campaign was [as independents] - we were literally doing everything. So if we had the backing of a national party, just having a little bit more money to advertise in terms of a campaign [would help]," County Coun Razakazi added.