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Hello and welcome to Coffeyhouse Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm

Oskreminton and I'm joined by Katie Bulls and James Heel. So George Galloway

is back after a chaotic and messy by-election in Rochdale, the former Labour MP and

left-wing firebrand has won a resounding victory for the Workers Party of

Britain. Katie, could you take us through the results to start with?

Yes, so ever since Labour had to suspend its candidate for

comments about the attack in Israel by Hamas we've had a situation where

George Galloway became the bookie's favorite.

Of course he has some form here in terms of winning in by elections in this type of seat.

But I think in the past week or so there's also been, you know, some voices, some pollsters, some

labor figures saying we still think the suspended labor candidate might edge it because

institutional party knowledge people might just you know because the name laborer was on the form might just ticket

Post of votes went out early and also there are focus groups at the weekend suggesting that voters cared about domestic issues rather than seeing this as purely as a referendum on Israel, Gaza, which is what George Galloway has tried to make it.

That has not come to pass. George Galloway has won pretty comfortably he got just under 40% of the vote at 12,335

votes it means the seat which did have a labor majority of about 10,000 now has George Galloway, who is this time standing for the Workers Party of Britain, the majority of 5,694.

In the second place, you did not have the Tories you had independent

candidate David Tully he had 6,638 votes the Tories were in third and

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