Rochdale’s new MP Paul Waugh is heckled during his speech as Labour take back the constituency from George Galloway. Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Paul Simon Ellison, the Conservative Party, 4,273.
00:08George Galloway, Workers' Party, 11,587.
00:14Michael David Howard, Reform UK, 6,773.
00:40Andrew John Kelly, Liberal Democrats, 2,816.
00:48Martin David Savin, Green Party, 1,212.
00:57Paul Waugh, Labour and Co-operative Party, 13,027.
01:25I hereby declare that Paul Waugh is duly elected.
01:52Thank you. I'd like to thank the returning officer, the counting staff and of course
01:58the police. Special thanks go to my agent Tom Bessford and of course our campaign organiser
02:04Neil Emmott. And of course all the Labour councillors and all the Labour activists who
02:13made this victory possible. I'd like to thank George Galloway for his service. I particularly
02:23want to pay tribute to... Are we going to be allowed to speak? Is this a democracy?