George Galloway Wins the Rochdale By-Election
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at the result from the by-election in Rochdale.
George Galloway from the Workers Party of Britain won with a resounding majority. Independent candidate David Tully came second as Labour and the Conservatives only received just over a quarter of the vote put together to come third and fourth. Is this a clear rejection of Keir Starmer’s position on Gaza?
Adam is in the studio, Chris is in a bumpy car, and they are joined by pollster, Scarlett Maguire, and North West Tonight Political Editor, Annabel Tiffin.
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| 0:04.6 | Hello, we are continuing the new newscast tradition of doing an early morning live episode on |
| 0:10.5 | I Player when there's a by-election. this case it was Rochdale and in this case it marked the |
| 0:16.8 | comeback of George Galloway, the significance of which we will unpick in this episode of Newscast. So this is the one that we did live on |
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| 0:56.1 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio, |
| 0:58.6 | and as we continue our newscast tradition |
| 1:01.6 | of doing a live early morning episode after a by-election. |
| 1:05.3 | In this case it's the Rochdale by-election which was triggered when the Labour MP Sir Tony Lloyd |
| 1:10.3 | who lots of people knew in love died earlier this year and it's turned out to be quite a |
| 1:14.8 | controversial one and it's turned out to have quite an exciting from a political point of view |
| 1:20.9 | result and that's what we're going to talk about on this episode of newscast. |
| 1:24.8 | Now continuing the tradition of getting up early, |
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