Assessment of last nights by election result. George by election result. George galloway many people found his divisive form of politics utterly offensive , but he did utterly offensive, but he did storm to victory. Clearly, storm to victory. Clearly, people arent keen on voting for the main parties anymore. What do you think this says about the state of our democracy . Is this a one off . Is this a one off for the likes of George Galloway, or could this be replicated across the country come a general election . And whats keir starmer to do . Will he change his approach to israel palestine , to the war in gaza off the back of this result, or will he stick to what hes doing so far . Stick to what hes doing so far . Could there be further rebellions from within his party over this issue . Should any election in this country, any by election a local election, be centred around a foreign conflict that we are not directly involved in . What does that say to . And also postal votes, postal v
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Surprising results. But before surprising results. But before all of that, lets get the news with polly middlehurst. With polly middlehurst. Nigel, thank you and good evening to you. Well, the top story from the newsroom tonight is that the london mayor, sadiq khan , has now lee khan, has now accused lee anderson of pouring petrol on the flames of islamophobe. Here the flames of islamophobe. Here he speaking after the prime he was speaking after the Prime Minister described the former tory Deputy Chairmans remarks as unacceptable refusing to as unacceptable but refusing to say they were islamophobic. Earlier, mr anderson admitted his words had been clumsy when he suggested islamists had got control of the mayor of london. He said hed intended to highlight what he believes is mr khans failure to tackle pro palestine protests. Sadiq pro palestine protests. Sadiq khan says rishi sunak needs to clearly condemn the remark. Its been more than two days now since this senior conservative made