George Galloway: Who is the Workers Party politician who's taken a landslide victory in Rochdale by-election?
Following a campaign during which the Gaza war was a central focus, former Labour MP George Galloway is returning to Commons for his own party, after a by-election win in Rochdale. First elected to parliament in nineteen eighty seven, just who is the controversial politician? Here's everything you need to know about his political past.
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00:00 "Labour is on notice that they have lost the confidence of millions of their voters."
00:09 George Galloway is now the MP for Rochdale, representing the Workers' Party of Britain,
00:13 winning the seat by a landslide.
00:15 This is the third party that Undie Native has represented.
00:18 During the general election of 1987, he took the seat in Glasgow Hillhead for Labour.
00:23 By 1997, his seat had changed to Glasgow Kelvin.
00:26 And by 2003, he was expelled from the party over comments made about the Iraq war.
00:31 Galloway joined the Respect Party, leaving Scotland to win the East London, Bethnal Green
00:35 and Bow seats in 2005.
00:37 Aside from his politics, you might recognise Galloway for moments like this during his
00:40 celeb Big Brother stint.
00:45 Political success wasn't his again until 2012, when he won the Bradford West by election
00:49 but lost the seat at the next general election.
00:51 In the intervening years, two more general election losses and a London mayoral bid failure
00:56 before his victory in Rochdale.
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