As he celebrated victory early Friday after profitable a parliamentary election, George Galloway, a veteran left-wing firebrand, directed his assault squarely on the chief of Britain’s opposition Labour Get together.
“Keir Starmer, that is for Gaza,” Mr. Galloway mentioned, sporting the fedora hat that has change into his trademark. “You may have paid, and you’ll pay, a excessive worth for the function you’ve gotten performed in enabling, encouraging and overlaying for the disaster presently occurring.”
Mr. Galloway received the election — for a seat in Rochdale, north of Manchester, that had beforehand been held by Labour — after a chaotic marketing campaign that turned emblematic of the anger that has swept by British politics over the struggle in Gaza.
Voting came about on Thursday to switch Tony Lloyd, a Labour Get together lawmaker who had represented the district however died of blood most cancers in January. Mr. Galloway achieved a transparent victory, with 12,335 votes.
Mr. Galloway, founding father of the far-left Employees Get together of Britain, as soon as represented Labour in Parliament, however he was compelled out of the social gathering in 2003 over his outspoken criticism of the Iraq struggle.
Victory in Rochdale was the most recent act of revenge from a maverick politician who had run in a number of earlier elections towards his former social gathering, typically efficiently. Mr. Galloway has an extended historical past of fierce and at occasions inflammatory rhetoric, and he has a aptitude for producing publicity.
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