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...A local businessman called David Tully, who stood as an independent, came second with 6,638 votes, beating the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Reform UK....
...George Galloway’s campaign was essentially the only serious, organised political machine in town and he duly triumphed handsomely and emphatically despite a very impressive performance by David Tully, a...
...Galloway won 12,335 votes in Rochdale and David Tully, a respected local businessman, picked up 6,638. By contrast the Lib Dems only got 2,164 votes, the Tories 3,731 and Reform UK just 1,968....
...She planned to vote for Paul Ellison, the Conservative candidate, or for independent David Tully, who is prioritising help for local businesses....
...Last week, David Lammy, shadow foreign secretary, called on Israel to comply fully with the orders of the International Court of Justice’s ruling on Gaza....
...It is eight years since Labour’s Jo Cox was murdered by the white supremacist Thomas Mair; two and a half since the Conservative MP David Amess was killed by the Islamist Ali Harbi Ali....
...There’s the direct battle with the SNP for these voters in Scotland, with the Greens in Bristol Central and Brighton Pavilion, and with the likes of George Galloway and Lutfur Rahman in seats such as Rochdale...
...Demonstrators shouting “jihad” near Whitehall last weekend were members of Hizb ut-Tahrir, an organisation both Blair and David Cameron after him tried to ban, which wants a worldwide caliphate....
...UK: St David’s Day, celebrating the patron saint of Wales. US: latest deadline for a new funding deal to avert a partial government shutdown in Washington....
...(More on this in our handy explainer on the case here, David Allen Green’s piece on the judgment here, while you can read the court’s thinking for yourself here.)...
...For example, Logan Botanic Garden in Dumfries and Galloway is seeing the spread of Epilobium brunnescens and Dicksonia antarctica. The Edinburgh site has built an experimental rain garden....
...As Professor Galloway puts it, the bailout playbook is back with a bang....
...Tower Hamlets is still run by a successor of George Galloway’s party....
...Michael CrickAnd of course, the Conservatives tried a primary system in David Cameron’s day before the 2010 election and indeed subsequently....
...From Shakespeare’s The Tempest to Athol Fugard’s The Island and David Greig’s Outlying Islands, you can chart a course from isle to isle and find on them inhabitants caught up in power struggles and predicaments...
...You know, Sayeeda Warsi, who was the first Muslim in the British cabinet under David Cameron, she famously actually resigned her ministerial job over Gaza in 2014....
...Ranjit Thomas Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway Scotland, UK...
...A more theatrical note is promised by Truly Madly (Sphere, March), Stephen Galloway’s account of the passionate, turbulent, captivating romance between actors Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier....
...From the point of view of health risks, the raw oyster that Sir David Spiegelhalter is in the process of releasing from its shell and preparing to slide into his mouth probably wasn’t the safest bet....
...Strathclyde, or to give him his full name Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith, recalls: “I said: ‘Just in case.’ And had another drink.”...
...‘The Art of Fairness: The Power of Decency in a World Turned Mean’, by David Bodanis David Bodanis — author, teacher, corporate coach and something of a polymath — starts this book by saying that he has...
...“Adam believed he was on the brink of making history,” says presenter David Brown at the start of the new Wondery podcast, WeCrashed . “And in a way, he was....
...It’s lighter of touch (deftly delivered by Buggy and David Threlfall), but there’s a wealth of sadness too bound up in the comedic squabbles and, again, gentle philosophical rumination about where the past...
...Its presenters include former Labour MP George Galloway and former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond....
...The highest official valuation on a piece of English “brown furniture” was on a combined bookcase, clothes press and writing bureau at Dumfries House, Galloway, valued at £20m in 2007....
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