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George Galloway will be back in parliament on Monday with his megaphone and a new platform to rail against Labour.
His theme is Gaza and his menace is clear.
As he accepted victory in the Rochdale by-election at around 3.30am (at a rally in a Subaru car showroom of all places), the veteran left-wing agitator warned Sir Keir Starmer “[his] problems just got 100 times more serious than they were before today”.
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In Mr Galloway’s world, his win was the beginning of an earthquake that would flatten Sir Keir’s Labour.
“This is going to spark a movement, a landslide, a shifting of the tectonic plates in scores of parliamentary constituencies,” he said.
Labour, he said, was “on notice that they have lost the confidence of millions of their voters who loyally and traditionally voted for them”.
On Electoral Dysfunction this week Jess Phillips, Ruth Davidson and I discuss how much this disruptor will damage Labour and how big the electoral problem of Gaza is for Sir Keir.
It is something that Ms Phillips, who has a large Muslim community in her Birmingham Yardley…
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