The sacking of Azhar Ali as Labour's candidate in the Rochdale by-election is the biggest disaster for Sir Keir Starmer in his nearly four years as leader of the party. There will now be an almighty inquest into how a candidate who had made such comments about Israel and Gaza was selected for such a high-profile by-election. Defending Rochdale was never going to be easy for Labour. Sir Tony Lloyd's majority at the 2019 general election was 9,668, with the Conservatives in second place. But the challenge from firebrand left-winger George Galloway and the constituency's former Labour MP Simon Danczuk...