George Galloway may stand as MSP
GEORGE Galloway has revealed that he may stand for a seat in the Scottish Parliament.
The Dundee-born politician, elected MP in the Bethnal Green and Bow constituency in 2005, failed to secure the nearby Poplar and Limehouse seat in London's East End as a Respect party candidate in the general election in May this year.
In a newspaper column today, he writes that he is under "serious pressure" to be a candidate in Glasgow for the Holyrood elections next May.
He writes: "I'd need 5 per cent of the Glasgow vote to get elected - somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 votes. My friends don't think it's beyond me. Neither do I. What about you?"
A prominent critic of the war in Iraq, Mr Galloway, who is also a former Labour MP, stood for the anti-war Respect Party in 2005.
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