{"id":66431,"date":"2024-03-02T04:40:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T04:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/left-wing-firebrand-george-galloway-wins-uk-by-election\/"},"modified":"2024-03-02T04:40:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T04:40:06","slug":"left-wing-firebrand-george-galloway-wins-uk-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/left-wing-firebrand-george-galloway-wins-uk-by-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Left-wing firebrand George Galloway wins UK by-election"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ROCHDALE: Left-wing firebrand George Gallo\u00adway was elected to the UK parliament on Friday after tapping into anger over the Israel-Hamas war in a by-election.<\/p>\n

Galloway, 69, first became an MP in 1987 and will return to the House of Commons for the first time since 2015 after winning the seat of Roc\u00adhdale, in the north of England, by nearly 6,000 votes.<\/p>\n

The vote saw the main opposition Labour party withdraw its candidate, Azhar Ali, after he touted a conspiracy theory that Israel had allowed Hamas to carry out its attack on October 7.<\/p>\n

Galloway put the Gaza conflict front and centre of his campaign in Rochdale, which has a 30 per cent Muslim population.<\/p>\n

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Workers Party leader put Gaza conflict front and centre in his campaign<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cKeir Starmer, this is for Gaza,\u201d Galloway, leader of the Workers Party of Great Britain, said in his victory speech, referring to the Labour party\u2019s leader.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have paid, and you will pay, a high price for the role that you have played in enabling, encouraging and covering for the catastrophe presently going on in occupied Palestine in the Gaza Strip,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The Scottish-born Gall\u00ado\u00adway, nicknamed \u201cGorge\u00adous George\u201d, has had a long and chequered political career, in which he has represented several parties, including Labour.<\/p>\n

He sparked controversy in the 1990s when he visited then-Iraq leader Saddam Hussein, telling him: \u201cSir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability\u201d.<\/p>\n

Galloway gained international attention in 2005 when he was called to testify over Iraq in the US Senate. He had earlier been expelled from Labour over his stance on the war.<\/p>\n

His majority of 5,697 votes in Rochdale amou\u00adnted to 18.3 per cent of the total, on a turnout of 39.7 per cent.<\/p>\n

The surprise runner-up was David Tully, a local businessman and independent candidate.<\/p>\n

It is very rare for none of the main parties to finish in first and second place.<\/p>\n

Published in Dawn, March 2nd, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ROCHDALE: Left-wing firebrand George Gallo\u00adway was elected to the UK parliament on Friday after tapping into anger over the Israel-Hamas war in a by-election. Galloway, 69, first became an MP in 1987 and will return to the House of Commons for the first time since 2015 after winning the seat of Roc\u00adhdale, in the north […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2024\/03\/02084531730a8aa.png?r=084804","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}