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‘Britain’s conscience is not dead’
As the charismatic rebel candidate for Rochdale GEORGE GALLOWAY sends a remarkable 326 candidates into battle against Labour, Andrew Murray sits down with him to discuss Gaza, Starmer, and the Workers Party’s agenda
George Galloway speaking to the media during a press conference on Parliament Square in central London, where he announced the selection of hundreds of Workers Party General Election candidates, April 30, 2024

ALMOST certainly a national election campaign has never been launched in Ashton-under-Lyne before.

Chalk it up as another first for George Galloway, on the stage in the market square to kick off a Workers Party election effort that will run to at least 326 candidates, enough to make the prospect of a Galloway premiership a mathematical possibility come July 4.

Standing before an imposing, yet shuttered and crumbling town hall — insert your own metaphor here, I’m going for something to do with the Labour Party — Galloway is also on his own final election outing.

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