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George Galloway angrily cut off a live radio interview after being challenged over comments he made about gay relationships.
The Rochdale MP and leader of the Workers Party of Britain hung up after being asked by the LBC's Lewis Goodall about the remarks he made in the interview with Novara Media, in which in which he suggested he did not think gay relationships were equal to heterosexual ones.
When the remarks were played by Mr Goodall on his Sunday show in the station, and put to him afterwards, Mr Galloway said: “This is a clip of a clip. It is an edited clip of an edited clip", a point which Mr Goodall denied.
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However, Mr Galloway suggested a wider point he had made about gender identity had been lost. He also claimed that Mr Goodall had 'got this interview to talk about the election' and that the radio station was “ambushing” him, adding: “I have got a simple answer. Listen to the whole thing tonight.”
Mr Galloway then stated he was going to hang up the phone, saying: “More fool me thinking that your request that I come on and talk about the elections was genuine.”
In a clip from the interview with Novara Media, Mr Galloway said: “I don’t want my children prematurely sexualised at all, I don’t want them taught that some things are normal when their parents don’t believe that they’re normal.
“Now there’s lots of things not normal, doesn’t mean you have to hate something that isn’t normal. But if my children are taught that there’s – whatever the current vogue number is – 76 or 97 or whatever the number of purported genders that exist, I don’t want my children taught that.”
Mr Galloway became the MP for Rochdale in February, gaining
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