What is George Galloway?
'''George Galloway''' (born 16 August 1954) is a [[British people|British]] politician. He is a former member of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]], but left in October 2003; later he was in the [[Respect Party]], until this group was wound up in 2016. [[File:Official portrait of George Galloway MP 2024 crop 2 (cropped).jpg|thumb]] ==Early life == Galloway was born and raised in [[Dundee]], [[Scotland]]. He joined the [[Labour Party Young Socialists]] when he was 13 years old. ==Career== In 1983 Galloway became General Secretary of the [[London]] charity War on Want. Galloway was the [[Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Glasgow Hillhead]] from 1987-1997 and [[Glasgow Kelvin]] from 1997-2005. In 1998, he started a political [[campaign]] called the Mariam Appeal. Galloway became the Vice-President of the [[Stop the War Coalition]] in 2001. Galloway was thrown out of the Labour Party in 2003 because of some of his actions. From 2004 to 2016, he was a leading figure in Respect. He was MP for [[Bethnal Green and Bow]] from 2005-2010. From 29 March 2012 to 8 May 2015 he was the Respect Party MP for [[Bradford West (UK Parliament constituency)|Bradford West]]. Galloway was a housemate in the 2006 series of Celebrity [[Big Brother (UK)|Big Brother]]. Galloway stood in the [[London mayoral election, 2016|2016 London Mayoral election]], but came seventh in the vote. In 2017 Galloway was an [[Independent politician|independent candidate]] at the [[Manchester Gorton (UK Parliament constituency)|Manchester Gorton]] by-election. The [[by-election]] didn't happen because it was overtaken by the [[2017 United Kingdom general election|2017 General Election]]. Galloway came a distant third with 5.7% of the vote. In the [[2019 United Kingdom general election|2019 general election]], Galloway stood in [[West Bromwich]] East as an independent. He said he supported [[Jeremy Corbyn|Corbyn]]'s leadership and [[Brexit]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rodgers|first=Sienna|date=2019-11-09|title=Ibrahim Dogus replaces Tom Watson as Labou