Galloway, a former Labour MP, was elected in Rochdale as the Workers Party of Britain candidate, after calling the by-election “a referendum on Gaza” and winning the support of a large proportion of the town’s Muslim community.
Labour abandoned its campaign after its candidate, Azhar Ali, was found to have made inflammatory remarks about Israel.
Galloway holds a 5,697-vote majority in the seat that Labour had held since 2005. The win was his seventh parliamentary victory of a political career in which he has represented four cities and three parties across four decades, equalling Winston Churchill’s record.
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