"The sun was out for George Galloway this week as he campaigned vigorously in Buchanan Street, Glasgow's main shopping thoroughfare. And so too were a few hundred of his fellow citizens. Karen Millen and Hugo Boss could wait for a while, for here they were witnessing a rare thing: a Scottish politician who could speak without notes for 15 minutes, and whom they all recognised. Galloway on a soapbox and with a megaphone in his hand can be irresistible and the handful of curious passers-by had swelled to a throng by the time he had finished a rodomontade which excoriated Labour and the Conservatives for neglecting his city. "The life expectancy of people in parts of this city is 10 years worse than in Kabul," he bellowed. "The people who purport to represent you have let you down. But if you send me to Holyrood I will make you proud of me."
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