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Galloway favourite with the bookies for Rochdale by-election success

Source: PA Wire

George Galloway is confident of becoming the next MP for Rochdale as the final full week of campaigning in the by-election begins.

The one-time Labour and Respect Party MP, now of the Workers Party of Britain, is also the bookies’ favourite, following the implosion of the Labour Party campaign last week.

Azhar Ali, the Labour candidate, had party support withdrawn over remarks suggesting Israel was complicit with the massacre of its own people in the October 7 massacre.

Instead of Mr Ali,

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