George Galloway threatens to oust Angela Rayner at normal election

George Galloway has threatened to oust Angela Rayner as an MP by standing a candidate in opposition to her.

The controversial left-wing firebrand, who was sworn in as the brand new MP for Rochdale on Monday, claimed he has 15,000 supporters within the Deputy Labour Leader’s constituency of Ashton-under-Lyne and can have the ability to “vitally affect” her probabilities of re-election.

Ms Rayner has served because the MP for the Greater Manchester seat since 2015. At the final election in 2019, she gained greater than 18,544 votes – profitable a majority of 4,263. Speaking to reporters outdoors Parliament, Mr Galloway mentioned he will likely be placing candidates up on the normal election in constituencies throughout the nation, declaring: “We will either win or we’ll make sure that Keir Starmer doesn’t win.”

He continued: “Angela Rayner has a parliamentary majority of around 3,000. There are around 15,000 supporters of my view in her constituency so we’ll be putting a candidate up against her, either a Workers Party candidate or more likely an independent candidate that we support, and that will vitally affect the election of the Labour Deputy Leader.”

Mr Galloway took his seat within the House of Commons on Monday afternoon after his shock by-election victory in Rochdale final week. The Workers Party of Britain MP pledged allegiance to the King as a part of the swearing-in ceremony all MPs are required to do. He was accompanied by Alba Party MP Neale Hanvey and Conservative MP Sir Peter Bottomley, the Father of the House, as his sponsors.

He made clear earlier that morning he isn’t seeking to make buddies as he returned to Parliament after being ousted as an MP in 2015. As he was approached by reporters on his drive into Westminster, he mentioned he had all the time “loved the building” of Parliament earlier than including: “The people in it, not quite so much.”

Mr Galloway, who was expelled from Labour after being discovered to have introduced the social gathering into disrepute in 2003, declared “this is for Gaza” as he gained the Rochdale by-election within the early hours of Friday. The ex-Labour and Respect MP, who now leads the Workers Party of Britain, vowed to disrupt Labour’s bid for energy and threatened to face candidates in opposition to it in as much as 50 seats throughout the nation on the normal election.

The Rochdale by-election was triggered following the dying final month of sitting Labour MP Sir Tony Lloyd, who had a majority of 9,668 votes on the final election. But Mr Starmer’s social gathering withdrew its help for its new candidate Azhar Ali after a recording emerged of him suggesting Israel intentionally allowed its residents to be killed so it might invade Gaza.