Galloway in bid for Kaufman seat

FORMER Labour and Respect MP George Galloway has thrown his hat into the ring to succeed Sir Gerald Kaufman as MP for Manchester Gorton.

Mr Galloway – who was expelled from Labour in 2003 – will stand as an Independent candidate in the upcoming by-election triggered by the MP’s death last month.

He said ousting Labour from a stronghold which it has held since 1935 and won by a margin of 24,000 votes in 2015 would be “the mother of all by-election victories”.