Labour is taking a battering for sticking with recently-selected Rochdale candidate Azhar Ali after it emerged he spouted anti-Israel conspiracy theories. With the by-election in two weeks the clock is ticking…

Guido can reveal another prominent figure in Rochdale Labour circles, ex-councillor Rosie Choudhury, said Keir Starmer is a war criminal and that she was in the Labour Party to “work from within to stop the genocide [in Gaza]“. Choudhury was recorded making the statements in a meeting. She is a prominent campaigner for Ali in the run-up to the by-election…

Choudhury served as a councillor in Rochdale until 2022 before losing twice to the Tories. Guido hears she is once again the Labour Party candidate for the May local election in the Bamford Ward. She is also registered as a director of “Tigers International Association“, which provides training for British citizenship tests and a “British Asian Marriage Bureau that primarily aims to accommodate Bangladeshi & Pakistani brothers and sisters to find a suitable bride or groom“. Will Labour also stick with a candidate who thinks their leader is a war criminal?