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Speaking to the media after the Workers' Party campaign launch, George Galloway was asked what he hoped for.

He replied: “We have enough candidates that if everyone votes for them, I will be prime minister.

“It’s a big task in a very short space of time – we’re only four years old and the party only really took off in the Rochdale by-election.

“And yet we managed to find all these hundreds of candidates.”

The goal, he said, is to “persuade as many people as possible to vote for our policies of peace, equality, justice, an end to the massacre in Gaza and a new direction for the Britain “.

Asked what success would look like, Mr Galloway said he wanted “many” MPs and would be “extremely disappointed if it wasn't double figures”.

He said if they got 200,000 votes or more, they could benefit from state financial support, table motions in the Commons, start debates, and much more, which would be crucial for them.

Mr Galloway added that this would be important “especially if Keir Starmer was the Prime Minister”, as he would be “the leader of the real opposition”.

He said he was prepared to have no MPs, saying that if they got hundreds of thousands of votes in these elections, they would “still consider 2024 as the year of our breakthrough.”

But he also said it would be “an indictment of the electoral system,” but added: “I really don't think that hypothesis can come true.”