Hard left characters like the chris williamson. No, this hard left characters like the chris williamson. No, this is real. On another day, this would be the big story. Rwanda costs soan the big story. Rwanda costs soar. The government will have to pay £370 million under the uk, rwanda partnership, according to new reports. Can according to new reports. Can sunak salvage the scheme and is it worth the money . And uk eurovision release our entry to the music showpiece event Olly Alexander releases his song dizzy. Dizzy. Well, we have better look this time. So we have got a lot to get through in the next 2. 5 hours. Its 2. 5 hours. Well, it is actually and you know what . Its not only rochdales, not only rwanda. The im a bit concerned about gerry halliwells marriage because her husband is still in hot water. Well talk about this growing f1 scandal and let us know your thoughts this morning. Views at gb news. Com is gb views at gb news. Com is the address. First, the email address. First, though, very latest though, the very latest news with francis. With sam francis. Mark beth, thank you very much. Good morning from the gb newsroom. Itsjust much. Good morning from the gb newsroom. Its just gone 930. And as weve been hearing this morning, the top story is of course that George Galloway has won the seat of rochdale, taking just under 40 of the vote following an Unusual Campaign in in what should have been a safe labour seat. Labour seat. Keir starmer this is for gaza i that was the returning mps message to the labour leader following a campaign that focussed heavily on the war in gaza. The leader of the Workers Party and former labour mp himself , has party and former labour mp himself, has also enjoyed a varied media career, presenting programmes for both russian and Iranian State broadcasters. Iranian state broadcasters. Laboun Iranian State broadcasters. Labour, though, have dismissed the result , saying that he labour, though, have dismissed the result, saying that he only won because they didnt have a candidate in the running. Following their dismissal of azhar ali spreading azhar ali for spreading anti israel conspiracy theories while taking to the stage last night. This is what mr galloway had say. Had to say. Keir starmer this is for gaza. You have paid and you will pay a high price for the role that you have played in enabling encourage ing and covering. For encourage ing and covering. For the catastrophe presently going on in occupied palestine , in the on in occupied palestine, in the gaza strip. Gaza strip. In other news, the cost of rishi sunaks rwanda scheme could soar to half £1 billion. Thats in addition to hundreds of thousands more for each migrant whos deported , and an migrant whos deported, and an investigation by the public spending watchdog found. The millions in additional spending includes £11,000 for each migrants plane ticket. Therell migrants plane ticket. Therell also be an extra £20,000 paid to rwanda for every Asylum Seeker whos relocated there , with more whos relocated there, with more than £150,000 allocated per person. Thats to cover processing and integration costs. The government, though, insists the plan is vital to clamping down on illegal migration and the uks eurovision entry has now dropped. Wont you make me dizzy for me . Kisses. Will you take my kisses. Will you take my hand . Steady round and round til Olly Alexander has launched his brand new single you heard it there called dizzee ahead of this years song contest thats due to take place in sweden in may. The 33 year old singer has already landed five top ten uk singles and two number one albums with his band years and years, and he says that the new single, he hopes will transport you to somewhere magical. Single, he hopes will transport you to somewhere magical. For the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen. Or, of course, go to our website gbnews. Com slash alerts gb news. Com slash alerts. Gbnews. Com slash alerts. Good morning live. Its all good morning live. Its all a little bit manic in the morning. Shes been busy. Shes been getting texts from Christian Horner. I dont know what its about, but apparently not. Broadcastable a show. Broadcastable on a family show. Look, weve got much to talk look, weve got so much to talk about today. There is. What a great morning on the telly. Morning to be on the telly. Were on were not normally on on a friday morning, but we are happy to because a huge story to do so because a huge story last night from my hometown of greater actually, i Greater Manchester, actually, i grew but this grew up in bury but this is rochdale, part greater rochdale, part of Greater Manchester. George galloway of the britain, manchester. George galloway of the one britain, manchester. George galloway of the one the britain, manchester. George galloway of the one the most britain, manchester. George galloway of the one the most divisive and one one of the most divisive and controversial by election contests recent history, most contests in recent history, most definitely safe labour definitely in a once safe labour seat where the party came fourth. This was his victory message to labour leader sir keir starmer. Starmer. Keir starmer this is for gaza. You have paid and you will pay a high price for the role that you have played in enabling and encouraging and covering for the catastrophe. We are presently catastrophe. We are presently going on in occupied palestine in the gaza strip. In the gaza strip. I was desperate to see the result of this last night. I dont know about you. I i was out with gb news last night at a news quiz. Gb news did very, very well. Beat most of our competition just to be clear about that. Right. And but going to 1 00 this morning, i to bed at 1 00 this morning, i was couldnt turn off gb news actually. Well done and tom harwood the coverage harwood for doing the coverage throughout the night because the implications this are implications of this are enormous. Why this is enormous. Now, why this is george a very George Galloway, a very controversial figure who has stood on the ticket of a middle east issue. Thats right. Yeah. And im sort of astonished that that middle east issue, which is no doubt miserable and the casualties are mounting up, but thatis casualties are mounting up, but that is determined who the mp is going to be in rochdale. Most definitely a war thousands of miles from in the middle miles from here in the middle east already impacting the east is already impacting the shape appearance the shape and appearance of the house commons. House of commons. Course, george now, of course, George Galloway the comeback king. Galloway is the comeback king. Hes a remarkable political hes had a remarkable political career lots of career and there are lots of implications because yes, this is about whats happening in the middle but does it middle east. But what does it tell a potential labour tell us about a potential Labour Government . Divided government . How divided theyll be and matters . Be on israel and other matters . It to personal between it seems to be personal between George Galloway and keir starmer , galloway said this is starmers Worst Nightmare. Yeah, well joining us now is politicos christopher hope. Good. Um, christopher, politicos christopher hope. Goocgood. Um, christopher, politicos christopher hope. Goocgood morningl, christopher, politicos christopher hope. Goocgood morning to zhristopher, politicos christopher hope. Goocgood morning to you. Opher, politicos christopher hope. Goocgood morning to you. Um,r, very good morning to you. Um, are you in rochdale, chris . It looks like it. Looks like it. Yeah. Its snowing on me. Hi, mark. Hi bev. Yeah. Its snowing. Im in a, uh, George Galloway is having breakfast about 100 yards away from me at the moment. About 100 yards away from me at the moment. Uh, hes tucking into some bacon and eggs after a night he basically put one night when he basically put one across the main parties with labour and the tory party pushed into third and fourth place, uh, George Galloway , uh, statement George Galloway, uh, statement overnight when he said that keir starmer and rishi sunak are two cheeks of the same backside , cheeks of the same backside, they both got one and surely spanked here tonight in rochdale. That is certainly the case. I rochdale. That is certainly the case. I mean, theres no question hes won a majority of 6000. It was a 10,000 majority, uh, when the late uh, labour mp died back in january. So hes feeling hes, hes earned his breakfast this morning. But what it means for politics back in westminster. Were going to wait and see because of course hes going to be sworn in on monday. And hell be pursuing his and then hell be pursuing his agenda war and agenda about the gaza war and why he thinks there should be immediate cessation of hostilities there repeatedly. And that could make for some very interesting ahead very interesting months ahead in parliament. Christopher what does result tell the rest does this result tell the rest of the parties . Who is waking up with the biggest headache this morning . Presumably keir starmer . Presumably keir starmer . Yeah, certainly. Presumably keir starmer . Yeah, certainly. Keir starmer is deeply embarrassed. There um, um, candidate azhar ali was disowned by the party after recordings emerged of him , um, recordings emerged of him, um, making some really a dreadful remarks about the jews and israel. Um, after the ballot papers had been printed. So voters here thought they were voting for a labour candidate, even though hed been disowned by the party. Theyve issued an apology this morning. The labour party are pledging win back party are pledging to win back this in the forthcoming this seat in the forthcoming general probably later general election, probably later in tories also had in november. The tories also had a bad, bad night, although coming third isnt so bad in rochdale. Reform had a dreadful rochdale. Reform had a dreadful night. They came sixth , fewer night. They came sixth, fewer than 2000 votes for simon danchuk, the former labour mp who represented rochdale all those years ago. So a big swipe across to know this is an unusual by election. The candidate who came second, david tully, independent that is a season Ticket Holder at rochdale football club. He fought on a on a mandate of trying to bring a better, um nhs facilities here in rochdale. So i think youve got the irony of having an International Agenda for the winner , he said. This is for winner, he said. This is for gaza. George galloway , when he gaza. George galloway, when he won and the guy who came second was a hyper local candidate. Its an unusual, um , its an unusual, um, by election. George galloway, for his part, hes declaring hes emulated churchill. Hes now one of the only two, only one of two mps ever to ever to represent four different towns or cities in their lifetimes. The other was a wartime leader, Winston Churchill. Now, chopper, congratulations. You get all the glamorous locations , as i would imagine locations, as i would imagine that Keir Starmers mood will be gloomy this morning. Just like the weather in ross dale. Uh, first of all, George Galloway , a first of all, George Galloway, a famous and outspoken critic of keir starmer. Theres an element to which this is personal, dont you think . You think . Yeah, well, there could be. I mean, he certainly pinned it firmly on on keir starmer didnt he, last night when he said, uh, you will pay a high price. He said in enabling and encouraging and covering the catastrophe going on in occupy palestine, on the gaza strip , those are george the gaza strip, those are George Galloways words , and that he galloways words, and that he will only raise the tension , uh, will only raise the tension, uh, when he returns to parliament for the first time in nine years. Mr galloway and his party, the Workers Party of britain, plans to stand in 59 seats across the country. And seats across the country. And you mentioned earlier what this means for keir starmer. That could be a problem. I think in some seats where theres a high muslim population, the gaza muslim population, if the gaza conflict into conflict carries on into november, this goes november, later this year, goes through the year, there could be other, other eruptions of this kind we go kind of politics. As we go forward into what will be a huge year this country. Year for this country. Chopper, are you saying theyre that theyre just on the record that you think the Workers Party you think that the Workers Party of could cause labour of britain could cause labour potentially to lose some seats at the next election . Is that possible that the Workers Party of britain could be labours reform uk . Reform uk . I wouldnt say as wide a scale as that, but i think there are certain pockets of seats around the country where i think they will eat into support for, for labour party and that will cause problems, definitely. Mark. Okay. Thank you chris. Okay. Thank you chris. Christopher hope there in a glorious rochdale , uh, as you glorious rochdale, uh, as you can see, were going to be talking to other people up there this morning as alan this morning as well. Alan miller from the together declaration. He was there for the few days in a very sort the last few days in a very sort of apolitical capacity, actually, but finding out what was people of was motivating the people of rochdale , i mean, the turnout as rochdale, i mean, the turnout as well. Again we dont get very good turnouts , do we . Should we good turnouts, do we . Should we look at who the, uh, what the results from night . Results were from last night . Lets look at all the figures. Bnng lets look at all the figures. Bring you to so george bring you up to speed. So George Galloway, 39. 7 of the votes. Azhar ali, the labour party, 7. 7. Uh, david tully , independent, uh, david tully, independent, 21. 3. Paul ellison conservatives at 12. Simon danczuk for reform, a 6. 3 and a local lad as well, of course. Ian donaldson , lib dem course. Ian donaldson, lib dem 7. But George Galloway of the Workers Party of britain stormed it with almost 40 of the vote , it with almost 40 of the vote, saying this is a win for gaza. Yes. I mean, i think that something we have to do and make a priority is to ask ourselves, why does it matter to you . Because in the end, youre talking about these far flung issues like the war in gaza, which great humanitarian which is a great humanitarian concern, shouldnt really which is a great humanitarian concerbritish shouldnt really which is a great humanitarian concerbritish voters. Dnt really which is a great humanitarian concerbritish voters. But really which is a great humanitarian concerbritish voters. But does affect british voters. But does it tell us that labour potentially could be quite divided power . Going to divided in power . Were going to explore shortly. Explore that shortly. Shows you how and it shows you how organised some communities are around country when they around the country when they want get things done. Who has want to get things done. Who has this woken up this morning . Vaiews gbnews. Com is the email address in just a moment. Were just were going to to just were going to be to talking pollster matt goodwin. Just were going to be to talitog pollster matt goodwin. Just were going to be to talitog po us er matt goodwin. Just were going to be to talitog po us whatitt goodwin. Just were going to be to talitog po us what allfioodwin. Just were going to be to talitog po us what all of� dwin. Just were going to be to talitog po us what all of these uh to tell us what all of these results could for britain results could mean for britain as we head the next as we head towards the next general election. Ian, youre general election. Ian, youre with britains newsroom on gb news. Welcome back. Now, returning to the big political news of the day as George Galloway of the Workers Party of britain has swept to victory in the rochdale by election. What could this victory mean for the mainstream parties and is this, as he warned, sir Keir StarmersWorst Nightmare . Yeah. Starmers Worst Nightmare . Yeah. Well joining us now is top pollster and political scientist matthew goodwin. Hey, matthew , matthew goodwin. Hey, matthew, your reaction to the results last night and this morning . Last night and this morning . Well, i mean, obviously its bad news for the labour party. This is potentially the beginning of a serious rebellion against keir starmer and the partys positioning around israel gaza. But uh, let me be a dissenter voice this morning, mark. Heres what i think. Look, galloway will be a problem for laboun galloway will be a problem for labour. Hes a charismatic campaigner and so on. But if you actually look at the seats where galloway is going to be running seats with large numbers of british muslims , there are a lot british muslims, there are a lot of those seats. Mark already have big labour majorities. Now, have big labour majorities. Now, when you also take into account the National Polling that labours likely on current numbers this morning, probably going a majority of going to win a majority of somewhere 150 and 200 somewhere between 150 and 200 seats, i think at best galloway may be cost the Labour Party Half a dozen seats. I mean, i think this is going to be a rebellion , in other words, that rebellion, in other words, that the labour party is actu