Update 14 October
The
Guardian assesses the effect of his rape comments on his Bradford spring:
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He insisted his comments had not caused a setback in Bradford. "I haven't lost support in Bradford, no. The people who spoke to you, or the ones you are speaking to me about, never supported me in the first place," he said.
While it is true that national membership of Respect continues to grow – having reached 2,000 now, compared with just 300 before the Bradford byelection, according to the party secretary Chris Chilvers – it is disingenuous for Galloway to claim he has not lost support in the constituency.
At the beginning of this month
George Galloway said he would sue the NUS (BBC) for accusing him of being a rape denier.