Could the weirdest ever by-election be won by George Galloway?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer insists he took "decisive action" by suspending the Rochdale candidate Azhar Ali from the Labour party.
Should it have come quicker? How damaging has it been to the wider party? And what on earth is going to happen in what's fast becoming the weirdest by election in modern history - with not one but three former Labour candidates.
Later, we look at Rafah, in Gaza - now bracing itself for a ground incursion from an Israeli government that seems hell-bent on finishing a military mission. What does it take to get Netanyahu to stop? Will the US cease selling him weapons? And how does this sit alongside international negotiations for a prolonged ceasefire.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | Who should Labour supporters vote for in Rochdale then? |
| 0:14.8 | The voters in Rochdale will have to determine who they vote for, but I'm not prepared to put forward a Labour |
| 0:21.9 | candidate unless I think that candidate is fit to be a Labour MP. |
| 0:27.8 | That was Kirstama, unable to support the Labour candidate in what was formerly a safe |
| 0:34.6 | labour seat of Rochdale in Lancashire. If you're a voter in Rochdale, you have the |
| 0:41.7 | choice of someone who was kicked out the Labour Party 20 years ago, someone who was kicked out the |
| 0:47.9 | Labour Party seven years ago, someone who was kicked out of the Labour Party yesterday and a host of others now. |
| 0:57.7 | What on earth is going on in the race to be the next Rochdale MP |
| 1:03.2 | and how will it affect Stama's leadership? |
| 1:06.8 | This is shaping up to be the weirdest, most unusual, most volatile or unpredictable by-election that we've seen in years, possibly in modern history. |
| 1:20.3 | On today's show, we're going to take you through it and ask how it's going to shape the much bigger political contest to come. |
| 1:26.2 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:30.7 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:32.3 | It's Emily. |
| 1:32.9 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:33.3 | And later we'll be looking at that imminent, impending offensive, deeply feared by Palestinians in Raffa, |
| 1:41.3 | who have been told once again to move, move to save their lives from an |
| 1:47.2 | Israeli invasion there as Israel continues its hunt for Hamas terrorists. But first we're going to |
| 1:53.1 | talk about Rochter, where Labour had their candidate. They were going ahead perfectly well after |
| 1:59.2 | the sad death of Sir Tony Lloyd, who'd been |
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