'I slept in a drawer in slum attic as a baby'

MP RECALLS HIS PAST AS HE SLAMS HOME HAZARDS 'THAT COULD KILL SOMEBODY'

- GEORGE LYTHGOE

GEORGE Galloway recalled how he grew up sleeping in the attic drawer of a slum during a debate on substandard housing in Parliament.

The Rochdale MP gave an insight into his early years growing up in Scotland during a speech he dedicated to the toddler Awaab Ishak, who died as a result of damp and mould in his home.

During the debate he told the House of Commons about the poor state of housing in the Greater Manchester borough and elsewhere in the country, which he dubbed as a “national disgrace.”

The Workers Party leader said: “I was born in a slum – in an attic. There was just one room, with a sloping roof. I was horrifying my children this very morning, telling them how I had to sleep in a drawer. They thought that my mother pushed it in the drawer at night. If that were the case, I would not be here now. I know how things were in the bad, bad old days.