Galloway ‘should be suspended’ from Commons

RESPECT MP George Galloway should be suspended from the House of Commons for 18 days for bringing parliament into disrepute during an inquiry into his Iraq charity, a committee of MPs said yesterday.

The standards committee made the recommendation after it criticised Galloway for “conduct aimed at concealing the true source of Iraqi funding of the Mariam Appeal”.

The appeal was set up by Galloway in 1998 to provide medical help to Iraqis during the last years of Saddam Hussein’s rule when the country was under international sanctions.