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Galloway plots to oust Rayner at election by standing candidate in her seat

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George Galloway insisted he has at least 15,000 fans in Angela Rayner
George Galloway insisted he has at least 15,000 fans in Angela Rayner's constituency of Ashton-under-Lyne

FAR-LEFT agitator George Galloway today vowed to kick Angela Rayner out of parliament at the next election.  

Firing a warning shot at Sir Keir Starmer, the new MP for Rochdale declared that “the next election will be about Muslims”.

Newly elected MP for Rochdale, George Galloway, with his wife Putri Gayatri Pertiwi, spoke to the media outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster on Monday eiqtiqueikqprw
Newly elected MP for Rochdale, George Galloway, with his wife Putri Gayatri Pertiwi, spoke to the media outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster on MondayCredit: PA

He insisted “at least” 15,000 people in Ms Rayner’s Ashton-under-Lyne seat “support my point of view”.

Mr Galloway pledged to either put up a candidate from his Workers Party of Britain or support an independent to take on the deputy opposition chief.

He said: “There's at least 15,000 supporters of my point of view in her constituency.

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“So we'll be putting a candidate up against her - either a Workers Party candidate or more like an independent candidate that we support."

The hard-left politician claimed to have strong support bases "from Belfast to Bethnal Green, in Birmingham, in other parts of the West Midlands… in the towns around Rochdale, Blackburn, Burnley, Nelson and Bury".

He added: “We’ll be putting up candidates in all these places and we’ll either win or make sure Keir Starmer doesn’t win.”

Mr Galloway pledged to run for his Northwest seat again when a general election is called.

Addressing media outside the Commons, he promised to “make Rochdale great again”.

And he vowed to be a thorn in Sir Keir’s side over the Israel-Hamas war.

Pro-Palestine Mr Galloway was sworn in as an MP with the Alba Party’s Neale Hanvey and Tory MP Sir Peter Bottomley, the Father of the House, as his sponsors.

The Rochdale MP claimed ex-Labour chief Jeremy Corbyn was supposed to be by his side as he pledged allegiance to the King, but later realised he had a “longstanding diary commitment” and couldn't make it.

Mr Galloway, a former Labour member, swept to victory in Rochdale last week, bagging nearly 40 per cent of the vote in a showdown contest dominated by Gaza.

Asked on Monday whether Israel has a right to exist in any form, the Rochdale MP said “no state has a right to exist”.

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