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Morning Call: Having it both Galloways

Morning Call: Having it both Galloways

Rochdale's newest MP appealed to disaffected white voters as well as Muslim ones.

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Mar 01, 2024
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Good morning. George Galloway, the veteran left-wing agitator, is returning to Westminster after winning a decisive victory in the Rochdale by-election. The former Labour MP, who stood for his own Workers Party, won 12,335 votes and a comfortable majority of 5,697 in the once-safe Labour seat – an old textile town in the foothills of the Pennines.

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