Since he was elected as the town’s MP, the Workers party leader has grown his huge online audience, but now faces a tough election battle with Labour
George Galloway, seen here campaigning during the Rochdale byelection in February, said: ‘I have the largest audience in British politics.’George Galloway, seen here campaigning during the Rochdale byelection in February, said: ‘I have the largest audience in British politics.’
This may sound like the ramblings of someone on the wilder margins of the internet, but Galloway is one of the UK’s best-known politicians – with one of the biggest audiences at home and abroad. “We know what happened to Lady Diana. We are determined that it shouldn’t be allowed to happen to Princess Kate.”Galloway’s audience is huge and growing. On X, he has more followers than any member of the shadow cabinet except Keir Starmer, David Lammy and Ed Miliband. On YouTube, he boasts 440,000 subscribers.
But online his focus is on the Middle East. A Guardian analysis of his video transcripts found the word Israel was mentioned 1,877 times in 2024, while Rochdale was mentioned only 161 times – 91 of which were around the byelection in February.Make sense of the UK election campaign with Archie Bland's daily briefing, direct to your inbox at 5pm .
However, Galloway remains very popular with many of Rochdale’s Muslim community, which makes up about 30% of the town’s population.
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