"one of the nation's key black figures". Jasper was the Chief Political Commentator for The Voice newspaper during the 2010 election. Jasper was selected as Respect's candidate for the Croydon North by-election on 29 November 2012. As he gained only 2.9% of the vote, he lost his deposit. Jasper had at the time been a registered member of the Labour Party and was removed upon running as a Respect candidate. Jasper also later admitted using Twitter bots during his campaign to try and sway the vote. In November 2016, it emerged that Jasper had rejoined the Labour Party to support the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. He was again suspended from the party in 2018 over allegedly homophobic tweets. Activism Jasper became a member of the Coalition of Resistance (COR) anti-cuts campaign. He was also a political adviser to the 1990 Trust and a board member of Lambeth Police Consultative Group, but resigned as Chair of Brixton Splash but remained a member of the board. Along with Zita Holbourne, he co-founded the anti-austerity organisation BARAC (Black Activists Rising Against the Cuts). In July 2011, Jasper in jest suggested that there were physical similarities between the extremist Anders Behring Breivik and Mayor of London Boris Johnson. Writing for Inside Croydon in 2015, Jasper called for the black community to take responsibility for the increase in teenage and community violence. He has been a high-profile campaigner about deaths in police custody, raising the cases of Sarah Reed and Mohamud Hassan, with his activism having been covered by the FT. He is today Vice Chair of BAME Lawyers 4 Justice campaigned to end the deportation of ex offenders and UK residents deemed to Jamaican nationals. He is now a Strategic Adviser to the national black men's African and Caribbean network Black Men 4 Change. Senior Political adviser Lee Jasper was appointed as Director for Policing and Equalities during Ken Livingstone's 2004–2008 term as Mayor of London. He was responsible for the development, enactment and promotion of equalities policies for the Greater London Authority (GLA) and had corporate responsibility for the development and delivery of anti discriminatory policies aimed at ensuring equality in employment practices and service delivery. He was also directly responsible for advising the Mayor on policing issues. Jasper was one of four senior political advisers whose salary was raised to £111,000 a year in 2004; higher than that of the mayor himself.