Left-wing firebrand Galloway, outspoken critic of Israel, loses seat in UK
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George Galloway, one of Britain's most colorful and controversial figures, has lost his Bradford West seat to the Labour Party.
Galloway, an outspoken critic of Israel and the US-led invasion of Iraq, won the seat from Labour in a 2012 special election. But some locals accused the left-wing firebrand - who once saluted Saddam Hussein and has appeared on a reality-TV show pretending to be a cat - of spending little time in Bradford, which has a large Muslim population.
The candidate from the tiny Respect Party lost by a wide margin to Labour's Naz Shah after a bitter campaign in the northern England city. Shah is a political newcomer who has overcome childhood poverty, a teenage forced marriage and the imprisonment of her mother for killing an abusive partner.
Shah had urged voters to reject Galloway because "we do not need a one-man Messiah to tell us how to come and fix up Bradford."
