Lawrence Rustem

Born Timucin Rustem,[1] he later adopted the name Lawrence. Rustem is of half Turkish Cypriot and half English ancestry. In 1991 he joined the far-left Anti-Fascist Action,[2] but then subsequently joined the far-right British National Party (BNP).

He unsuccessfully stood for election as a local councillor in the Colyers Lane ward of Bexley. He then stood for Parliament in the Dagenham constituency in the 2005 UK General Election where he received 9.3% of the votes. In the 2006 local elections he was elected as a councillor for the Valence ward of Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council. In the 2010 General election, he contested the Greenwich and Woolwich constituency for the BNP and lost his seat on Barking and Dagenham Council in the 2010 local elections.

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