After Labour party members in Copeland rejected Jeremy Corbyn’s preferred choice as candidate for the upcoming by-election in favour of former doctor Gillian Troughton, the hunt is on to find a suitable candidate for the upcoming Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election — to be held on the same day.
With Tristram Hunt quitting to take a job with the V&A, Labour MPs are worried the seat could be lost to Ukip or the Tories. But fear not. Help is at hand. Could George Galloway be about to come to comrade Corbyn’s rescue? Speaking on his Talk Radio show, the Respect party leader — who was expelled from Labour in 2003 — claims that he is the only candidate who could win Labour the seat in the Leave constituency:
‘If Labour puts up a candidate who is as clear as mud on that overarching overwhelming issue, then they will lose.
Frankly, the way I look at it now, unless the Labour party put me up in Stoke-on-Trent as the Labour candidate, they’re going to lose the seat.
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