Veteran politician George Galloway won about 40% of the vote in the by-election in the British city of Rochdale. Galloway targeted British Labor Party leader Keir Starmer in his victory speech.
The Labor Party was expecting a direct competition to replace the current MP, Tony Lloyd, who died on January 17 due to leukemia. But the campaign was thrown into disarray when it emerged that its candidate, Azhar Ali, had repeated anti-Israel conspiracy theories regarding the Al-Aqsa Flood operation.