ANALYSIS

George Galloway’s stunning victory at Bradford West has been treated with awe and adulation by his supporters and dismay and disgust by those who are not.

It is the nature of the man that he has polarised opinion in this way.

For on one hand, there is the George Galloway who champions causes such as the Mariam appeal that highlighted the devastating effect a decade-long sanctions were having on the children of Iraq, whilst on the other, there are many who are left wondering exactly why he is doing this.

One subscriber has asked me, what my impressions of him have been.

So, here goes.

The first time I met George Galloway, he was the Labour MP for Glasgow Kelvin, a maverick but highly confident about his position within New Labour.

He was so confident that he attempted to launch a newspaper aimed at the Asian community, for which I worked.

In one interview he gave me…