If the by-election in Rochdale, one of the poorest constituencies in the country, is about anything other than Gaza, it is about the Labour party. After all, it is being contested by three former members of the faithful who went, each in his own inimitable way, off the rails.

George Galloway, the bookies’ favourite, was booted out of Labour after railing against ‘Tony Blair’s lie machine’ and calling on British troops to disobey orders in Iraq. His subsequent career has burrowed ever........

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