George Galloway is a British politician, broadcaster and writer. Born in Dundee, Scotland, he represented four constituencies as a Member of Parliament, elected as a candidate for the Labour Party and later the Respect Party.He became General Secretary of the London-based charity War on Want in 1983, remaining in the post until elected as Member of Parliament for Glasgow Hillhead (later Glasgow Kelvin) at the 1987 general election.

In January 2006, Galloway appeared on the fourth series of the reality TV programme, Big Brother for nearly three weeks. He wrote later that his activities "were actually the same stunts that BBC presenters and celebs get up for Children in Need. Galloway wrote in a column for The Independent newspaper in November 2012 writing that his "antics on Big Brother" had "raised tens of thousands of pounds for the" Interpal charity and paid for an "extra caseworker in my constituency".

Galloway joined the Labour Party Young Socialists at age 13 and was still a teenager when he became secretary of the Dundee Labour Party. Galloway became Vice-Chairman of the Labour Party in the City of Dundee and a member of the Scottish Executive Committee in 1975. In 1981, he emerged the youngest ever Chairman of the Scottish Labour Party, at 26 years old after holding the vice-chairman post over the previous year.