Galloway has the Red Queen in his sights

You may think she’d be dancing in the streets after the Tories suffered their worst local election results in 40 years, but Labour’s deputy leader Angela rayner is worried.

Not only is she continuing to feel the heat over whether she broke the law with her living arrangements in 2015, but now it also seems she may be in line for her very own ‘Portillo moment’.

Last week’s results revealed a clear threat to her 4,200- strong majority in Ashton-under-Lyne .

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s stance on the war in Gaza led to the loss of neighbouring oldham Council, and back in February, George Galloway and his ‘Workers Party’ won the byelection in nearby rochdale.

Galloway’s party has already nabbed former cricketer monty Panesar as a candidate in the next General election. ominously for the ‘red Queen’, Galloway tells me: ‘We will be the challenge to Keir Starmer’s Labour party at every turn.’ Watch out Angela — George is out to get you.

PS: Panesar backed Tory MP Zac Goldsmith in the 2016 London mayoral election. Then he hoped Labour’s ‘Sadiq Khan would pass the baton to me as mayor of London’. Now he insists: ‘my aspiration is to become Prime minister.’ Sounds like monty spent too much time fielding at silly point.