Khalil Ahmed is to launch his general election campaign as the Wycombe candidate for George Galloway’s Workers Party of Britain tomorrow.

The town’s ex-mayor will stand outside the Guildhall at 6pm on Friday, May 31, and make his case for being elected as Wycombe’s next MP.

He will be joined by Workers Party leader Galloway, who was elected in the Rochdale by-election in February, largely over Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.

Like the new MP for Rochdale, Ahmed has also put Gaza at the heart of his election campaign, following his resignation from Labour last month due to the party’s reluctance to call for a ceasefire or ban on arms sales to Israel.

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In a Facebook post last week, the new candidate for Wycombe criticised the constituency’s long-standing MP Steve Baker who defeated him by 4,000 votes at the 2019 election.

He said: “Having lived in town for nearly 50 years, I feel that this once great town has been let down by people in positions of power, such as the MP and also the council.

“Under their watch, this town which was once the furniture capital of the world and through its prosperity and thriving market that gave us the mayoralty, it has now become known for food insecurity, pothole-ridden roads, failing bus services, lack of school places and inadequate healthcare provisions, and the list goes on.”

Ahmed has served as a local councillor in Wycombe for 10 years, was mayor from 2014 to 2015 and co-founded the Wycombe Food Hub during the first Covid-19 lockdown in 2020.

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