George Galloway, former Labor MP, has swept the by-election held this Thursday in the Rochdale constituency, leading the British Workers Party. The radical and populist leftist, who abandoned Labor decades ago to become its bête noire, obtained 40% of the votes in a town with a 30% Muslim population.

Galloway is a politician, presenter and journalist who, from a far-left populism that confronted Tony Blair at the time, has managed to enter Parliament for up to four different constituencies over 25 years.