The political journalist Paul Waugh has been selected as the Labour candidate to fight the Rochdale Seat in the General Election
Waugh who applied to be the candidate there at the previous by election only to be beaten by Lancashire Councillor Azhar Ali, before he lost the support of his party over comments made about Israel and the 7 October Hamas attacks. wrote on X
“It’s a true honour to have been selected as Labour’s Parliamentary candidate for my home town.
“Rochdale desperately needs a Labour government and a Labour MP to end 14 years of Tory chaos and decline.
“We need an MP who can unite the town, and who reflects the basic decency and local pride that all us Rochdalians share.
“Labour is back in the service of working people. And I’ll do everything in my power to ensure that Rochdale gets an NHS back on its feet and the economic renewal its residents deserve.”
Waugh will be facing the current MP George Galloway of the Workers Party in what should be an interesting contest
Meanwhile Connor Rand, a former Labour organiser and senior researcher at shopworkers’ union Usdaw, is the new Altrincham and Sale candidate, after the previous candidate recently stood down.
