Former Labour MP George Galloway has stormed to victory in the Rochdale by-election, taking the seat from his former party.
It follows a chaotic campaign, which Galloway described as a "poll on Gaza". The Workers Party of Great Britain stormed to victory with 12,335 votes. Galloway started his acceptance speech by saying: "Keir Starmer, this is for Gaza.""You have paid and you will pay a high price for the roll you have played in enabling, encouraging and covering for the catastrophe presently going on in occupied Palestine in the Gaza Strip," he continued.
" The Labour Party had initially expected the by-election to be straightforward after the death of Tony Lloyd, who died from leukaemia on January 17. But when it emerged that its candidate, Azhar Ali, had told Labour Party members anti-Israel conspiracies, the election turned into chaos. The Labour Party said it was too late to officially drop Ali from the ballot, though he technically still stood as a Labour candidate.
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