Labour’s worst nightmare?
Political Fix
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🗓️ 1 March 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Veteran agitator George Galloway is returning to parliament after storming a divisive by-election in Rochdale. He claims his victory puts “scores” of other Labour seats at risk. Lucy Fisher is joined by FT colleagues George Parker, Robert Shrimsley and Jim Pickard to analyse the by-election result and examine the division and sectarianism stalking British politics. Plus the team looks ahead to what the government has in line for next week’s Budget.
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| 0:32.0 | A seismic shift or a flash in the pan. What does George Galloway's |
| 0:36.8 | by-election victory mean? Welcome to political fix from the FT with me Lucy Fisher. |
| 0:45.0 | So the Rochdale result, what does it tell us? |
| 0:49.0 | With me to discuss that and more are my FT colleagues. |
| 0:52.0 | Political editor George |
| 0:53.8 | Parker. Hi George. Hi George. Hi you see. Columnist Robert Shimsley. |
| 0:57.0 | Hi Robert. Hello. |
| 0:58.0 | Hello. |
| 1:00.0 | Hi. So we're meeting on Friday morning after George Galloway put Labour's leader on notice last night in his victory speech in Rochdale. |
| 1:18.0 | On Monday he'll be back in Parliament. |
| 1:20.0 | But what does all this mean for Labour? |
| 1:22.0 | George it's pretty embarrassing, isn't it, that Labour have had to apologize that they weren't able to field a candidate in this by election. |
| 1:30.0 | They claim that that's the only reason George Galloway won. Is that a |
| 1:34.6 | credible line of argument? Well it's quite a big reason I guess but it's also a big |
| 1:39.1 | failing on the part of the labor party they selected this candidate in the |
| 1:41.9 | first place and then had to reverse out of it. |
| 1:44.0 | But obviously it's a huge failing for the Labour Party. |
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