'Maverick' Labour MP is no stranger to controversy

LABOUR MP George Galloway is no stranger to controversy. He once flew the Palestinian flag from Dundee's council offices, when he was a local representative there.

Starting as general labourer in the parks of Dundee, he went on to become a production worker for Michelin Tyres, becoming an active trade unionist and rising to be a labour organiser in the late 1970s.

By 1983 he had secured the position of general secretary of War on Want a third world charity and four years later he defeated the then SDP member for Glasgow Hillhead, Roy Jenkins, to become a Labour MP.