Former Galloway campaign chief working for anti-Israel MPs

Independent Shockat Adam won Leicester South off Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth and Iqbal Mohamed won the newly created seat of Batley and Dewsbury. 

Giles was reportedly in charge of strategy during Galloway’s successful victory in the Rochdale by-election earlier this year. He had previously worked for Galloway during his campaign for the Batley and Spen by-election in 2021.

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In November last year, the JC reported that Giles was accused of “bullying” and threatening behaviour by several councillors after he had threatened to publish the names of councillors who refused to sign a letter that he helped organise calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

At the time, he said: “We will also be publishing the names of those who have been invited to sign but choose not to, in the interest of accountability.”

But he was later to understood to have clarified that only signatories who provided their express written consent in support of the letter would be identified.

Giles currently serves as a local councillor in the London borough of Kingston for the Kingston Independent Residents Group.