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heard it there hinting that he had plans

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for a new political career this week we

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found out what he meant I think some of

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us have already guessed when he

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announced on Twitter that he plans to

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stand as mayor of London when Boris

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Johnson's term of office comes to an end

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let's just have a look at his tweet

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there it is and that's him with his

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first backer it's his son though he

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looks a little young to vote though

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maybe Alex Simon may change the rules

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for that too George gallway welcome to

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the program now look you've just been

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decisively rejected by the people of

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Bradford West so what makes you think

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that the people of London will be any

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Keener on you well we'll see uh it's

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been a very good start uh 20,000 people

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have signed up for the campaign in 3

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days the uh launch the official launch

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will be next month and uh I expect it to

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be standing room only overflow in the

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street because as The Spectator pointed

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out not a normal friend of mine uh this

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week I could be the Nicola sturgeon of

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the London meral race I think Daman

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McBride who wrote that Damen McBride a

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man who knows about politics uh and who

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knows about campaigning uh can see a

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possibility that with a bland field from

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the mainstream parties someone a bit

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more interesting might just take it by

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storm I I I can see the character counts

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an a miral election which is is about

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individuals but you would have to win if

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you have any chance of winning at all

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places like Bethal green and B which was

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the constituency that rejected you in

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2010 that's not true in fact you need to

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kick your researcher uh uh I won Beth no

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GRE Ando in 2005 and promised to stand

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only once there and left uh in 2010 so

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you didn't run again no according to my

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my pre-election consider the politician

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keeping his the res which is myself well

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and truly chastise about this let me put

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this though to you you you you've

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supported in the past what is now the

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widely

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regarded as disgrace former mayor of

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toar hamlets lutter rapman isn't that

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going to haunt you during the campaign

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well Ken Livingston and I both think

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that the campaign against Lut for Raman

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was entirely unjust and that the uh idea

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that the uh B which has actually done

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better than any other in terms of

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schools which has kept uh education

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maintenance allowance which has resisted

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acmis resisted free schools

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and all the many achievements of that

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Administration should have been judged

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by the electorate not by a queen's but

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he was found guilty uh of voting fraud

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bribery false statements of to quote the

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judge driving a coach and horses through

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electoral law why would you still

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support someone like that he he wasn't

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in fact a judge and that's one of the

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sitting as a judge sitting as a judge

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but not uh a judge and I cling to the

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view that the legal process when it's

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finished will uh extinguish many of the

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Queen's council's remarks for example

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the most glaring one being that clerics

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religious people cannot call for a vote

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for someone which would invalidate most

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elections in the north of Ireland as you

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know uh but it would appear to be all

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right for pastors to pronounce for

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candidates mean the Judgment came from a

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deputy high court judge about breaches

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of electoral law is not for voters to

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determine breaches of electoral law it

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is for the law to determine that sure

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and the law it's under review now as you

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know so maybe we better uh await the

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outcome so you're sticking with um the

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former mayor of tar Hamlin uh I think

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that he was very unjustly treated in

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that I have the the company of one of

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London's two Mayors Ken Livingston who

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feels exactly the same you branded

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Bradford as quot an Israel free zone

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would would it be your aim to make

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London an Israel free zone no uh but it

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would certainly be my aim to encourage

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the huge swell of pro Palestinian

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support in London I think pal Palestine

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has more supporters in London than

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anywhere else in the country but the

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mayor is not the pope and the mayor is

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not the president and he's not the prime

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minister or the foreign secretary so you

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weren't any of these things in Bradford

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either uh no but uh you called for it I

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called for it uh it's not exactly

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branding and of course it's

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unimplementable it's a moral position

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and my moral position on Palestine is

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well known to you and people watching

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this you mean like May Livingston making

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London a nuclear free zone as if that

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would stop any Soviet attack I suppose

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so or David blancet who did the same

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could I I I I put this to you the city

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of your birth is dande uh the city where

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you were a labor MP is Glasgow they are

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both now nationalist strongholds and you

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oppose uh that kind of nationalism don't

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shouldn't you have bigger fights to

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fight in either of these two cities than

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in London no I've lived in London for 35

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uh years I my children were born here go

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to school here and I was a member of

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parliament in London so I think I have

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every right to put my hat in the ring

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here and all the signs are that it's uh

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if I uh dare this metaphor put the cat

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amongst the pigeons I think the labor

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uh hopefuls are all extremely anxious

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about it because as The Spectator

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pointed out I have an appeal to

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traditional labor people of whom there

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are many millions in London will you run

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regardless of who the labor candidate

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is uh probably with one exception if

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Diane Abbott was the labor nominee I I

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probably would withdraw in her favor but

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I'll certainly fight all the others that

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are in the race all right and you would

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back Diane Abid if she was yes she's a

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long time comrade of mine and uh but I

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think labor will not choose her what do

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you you MP for betho MP for Bradford

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West you had previously been MP for

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Glasgow hillhead uh famous university

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constituency what do you say to those uh

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we claim look this is more to do with

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keeping the lucrative Galloway brand in

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the public eye than ever being a mayor

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of London well you very well know that

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most of my income doesn't come from any

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salary that's given to me by the State

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and that's been what I mean is that it

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keeps your brand and your you keeps you

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in the public eye and that's worth Mr Mr

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churel was from London and he was the MP

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in Dandee if it's good enough for him

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that way it's good enough for me I think

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this is one island people are entitled

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to run for office uh throughout uh and

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uh I have quite a good track record on

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the whole in elections I've been elected

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to Parliament six times twice entirely

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against the odds all right you once said

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in an interview I think it was with me

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that one day quote I'll be a National

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Treasure how's that Journey going 20

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years uh short of that I would have

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thought Mr Ben became a National

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Treasure only after he didn't matter

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after he was no longer a threat to the

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Metropolitan Elite that is running

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London now and my pitch is that uh we

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need someone to speak for the great

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majority of London not just those that

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are dripping in Gold George Galloway

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