Galloway to take on Labour in EU elections
Expelled Labour MP George Galloway has announced plans to stand against his own party in next year’s European elections.
The Glasgow Kelvin MP pledged last night to contest Labour in every European seat in England and Wales next June. He plans to gather candidates prepared to attack Labour’s Iraq war stance.
Mr Galloway told BBC Scotland he would not resign his seat to force an early by-election and said he would take the party to court over his expulsion.
Mr Galloway’s membership to the Labour party was suspended in May after 36 years after he told Abu Dhabi TV that Mr Blair and US President George Bush had acted “like wolves” in invading Iraq.
He was later expelled from the party after the National Constitutional Committee concluded that his anti-war comments had brought the party into disrepute.
Mr Galloway said: “I am launching a unity coalition which will seek to unite the left, the peace movement, the anti-war cause, the Muslim community in Britain, progressive people of all parties and none, to fight New Labour in the European elections in June in England and Wales.”
