Watch: Galloway versus Sky News

After Rishi Sunak’s speech criticising the Rochdale result, there was only one reaction worth getting. The duty of interviewing George Galloway was left to Sam Coates of Sky News, following Sunak’s claim that last night’s result was ‘beyond alarming.’ Galloway initially played ball, telling Coates that he wasn’t taking the matter too seriously:

We’re talking about little Rishi Sunak in the fag end of his prime ministership. Don’t talk to me as if he has come down from the Mount with tablets of stone. As if the things he says are meant to awe me… I’ve got the democratic mandate here, not Rishi Sunak. He didn’t even come second! He’s lucky to come third.

Yet towards the end of the exchange, Galloway turned increasingly belligerent as Coates asked about the conduct of his supporters throughout the contest. ‘I won the election!’ Galloway insisted, as he wandered off, with the newly-elected MP’s supporters chanting ‘Bye bye’ at him.