George Galloway says he wants to "make Rochdale great again" after taking his seat in the House of Commons following his by-election victory in the seat. The Workers Party of Britain leader also hits out again Rishi Sunak saying it was not for the "unelected prime minister" to pick who represents the constituency. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 It's been an uneventful day, I'm glad to say, and you'll be sorry to say.
00:06 Nobody threw a tomato at me, rotten or otherwise.
00:11 My constituency of Rochdale is one of the poorest in the whole country, where once Rochdale
00:17 was one of the richest towns in the whole country.
00:21 Its heart has been taken out.
00:24 Its economy has ebbed away.
00:28 And it's my job to try to make Rochdale great again.
00:33 I know some of you don't like that slogan, but Rochdale was great, and why should it
00:38 not be great again?
00:40 It's not for the unelected Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to pick the MP in Rochdale.
00:47 The people of Rochdale have that prerogative, and they exercised it very clearly with a
00:55 thumping majority in which the governing party didn't even come second, and actually only
01:02 got a tiny handful of votes.
01:05 Were soundly beaten not just by me, but by the independent candidate that none of the
01:12 media even mentioned in the course of the by-election campaign.
01:16 So it's frankly horrifying that we have a government so bereft of public support that
01:23 they cower, frightened of calling the general election that this country badly needs.