Your Party to focus local election efforts on backing independent candidates

Rather than campaign everywhere, Your Party will target cities such as Bradford, Birmingham and London. Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA

Your Party is to focus its local election efforts on a number of urban areas with large Muslim populations where Labour support has weakened, throwing its support behind supporting independent candidates and community groups.

Party insiders have intentionally narrowed their focus to key targets including the London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham and Redbridge, where locally rooted independent campaigns are already braced to challenge Labour.