Analysis22:00 Chris Mason Political editor, reporting from Rochdale I’ve never covered a by-election like it. Bizarre, noisy, angry, colourful. 11 candidates, all men. Oh, and wildly unpredictable. Candidates disowned. And the local and the international jostling alongside each other for attention. The big characters: the two former Labour MPs, George Galloway and Simon Danczuk. The…
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George Galloway in back in Parliament after a resounding victory in the Rochdale by-election.
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