FORMER MP and veteran campaigner George Galloway has announced he is running in the forthcoming Batley and Spen by-election with the explicit aim of ousting Sir Keir Starmer as leader of the Labour Party. Mr Galloway, who was expelled from Labour in 2003, said he is standing as a candidate for his Workers Party of Britain in the poll on July 1. He is no stranger to politics in the district having served as Bradford West MP between 2012 and 2015. In a video posted on his social media feeds, filmed at Batley bus station, he said: "I'm standing against Keir Starmer. "If Keir Starmer loses this by-election, it's curtains for Keir Starmer.