Speaking to RT’s Max Keiser he said: “I have a committee which is seriously looking at the prospect of [me] running for Mayor of London at the next election.
“I’d like to fight Boris Johnson, and I think David Cameron probably wishes I’d be fighting Boris Johnson because if I’m not, Boris Johnson is back in Parliament fighting him.”
Former Labour MP Galloway is notorious for visiting Iraq in 1994 and delivering a speech to Saddam Hussein in which he told the dictator “I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability.”