George Galloway

Six-term Parliamentarian, freedom fighter and man of the world, George Galloway is one of the most outspoken, controversial and charismatic political figures of our time.

A highly respected orator, indefatigable in the pursuit of his causes and formidable in taking on his many opponents, he has ridden the political roller coaster for more than four decades.

George has taken on the US senate and won, and during his time in Parliament has served four constituencies, in two countries, and won seven elections.

As early as 1981, the British press started taking an interest in this political prodigy who described himself as having been "born in an attic in a slum tenement in the Irish quarter of Dundee, which is known as Tipperary". George Galloway was born into the Labour movement; his father a Union man his mother an Irish republican. He joined the Labour Party at 13 years old and for a long time the youngest-ever everything in the party.

From an early age he was a friend of Tony Benn, from the 1970s until Mr Benn’s death. Galloway joined the Transport and General Workers’ Union in 1973 – at the age of 19 – and is still a member (now known as UNITE). He represented the Union in parliament.

By age 20, he was a member of the Scottish Labour Executive, and at 22 was Dundee's youngest councillor. He became the elected Chairman of the entire Labour Party in Scotland aged 26 – when the party controlled almost all parliamentary seats, most councils and was THE power in the land.

By 1981, George Galloway had become one of the most articulate voices in Scotland.

Before turning 30 he had become general secretary of War on Want, a charity campaigning against poverty worldwide. George remained in this post until he was elected MP for Glasgow Hillhead (later Glasgow Kelvin) at the 1987 general election.

In 1994, George Galloway faced some of his strongest criticism upon his return from a Middle Eastern visit, during which he met Saddam Hussein. Following his meeting George was dubbed the "MP for Baghdad North". However, he commented, when speaking before the US Senate in May 2005, that he had met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. Whereas Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns, Galloway had met him to try to bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war.

He was expelled from The Labour Party by Tony Blair in 2003 over his opposition to the war on Iraq – while it was still raging – and became an independent MP.

He joined forces with the Socialist Workers Party and others to create Respect–The Unity Coalition in 2004, winning the Bethnal Green and Bow seat during the 2005 general election, defeating prominent Blairite MP Oona King – a seat which he voluntarily vacated in 2010, having promised to serve just one-term.

When George took the seat by 823 votes, it was the first time since 1951 that a party avowedly left of the Labour Party had won a seat in the Commons.

In 2006, he controversially appeared on Celebrity Big Brother, under the illusion it would allow him to relay his political views to the show's vast audience. However, most of George's political remarks were edited out, and all that most viewers remember is him pretending to be a cat and mimed licking imaginary milk from the cupped hands of fellow housemate, Rula Lenska.

Returning to politics in 2012, in one of the biggest political upsets in British history, Galloway defeated Labour again in the Bradford West by-election. The seat, like Bethnal Green and Bow in east London, had a high proportion of young Muslims who admired his uncompromising opposition to the Iraq war.

Despite, at the time, being slandered, smeared and eventually expelled from the political party in which he had spent most of his life, George Galloway's vindication came quicker than even he could have imagined, with no one now believing the Iraq war was justified.

Galloway lost his seat at the 2015 general election. He then stood as an independent candidate in the 2016 London mayoral election, but lost to Labour Party nominee, Sadiq Khan.

In the 2016 EU referendum, he advocated a Leave vote, campaigning with cross-party, pro-Brexit organisation Grassroots Out. He has served as Member of Parliament for Rochdale since the 2024 by-election and has been the leader of the Workers Party of Britain since he founded it in 2019.

Away from politics, George Galloway has been writing columns, making radio and television programs for over thirty years. He’s been a columnist for the Spectator, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Independent, the Daily Express, the Daily Record, the Roman Catholic paper, Flourish the Mail on Sunday, the Morning Star, Labour Weekly Tribune the Scotsman the Dundee Standard and many others.

George Galloway has presented well over one thousand mainly Live television and Radio Shows on Talksport Talk Radio LBC Sunrise WBAI Press TV Channel 4 RT International RT America RT UK and Al Mayadeen TV.

George Galloway is widely acnowledged as an exceptional orator, to which even his fiercest adversaries have given him due praise and appreciation.

Highly in-demand for both after dinner and keynote speaking engagements, George also has vast experience of presenting and hosting, both on television and radio, which translates effortlessly to the arena of corporate conferences and symposiums.

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