LONDON (Sputnik) – His assertion is best supported by two British press surveys demonstrating over 70-percent support for Russian airstrikes last fall and 78-percent backing for the country’s prime ministerial post over David Cameron last winter.
"President Putin is actually quite popular in Britain and that's why the media does their best to denigrate him," Galloway said.
London voters are scheduled to pick Mayor Boris Johnson’s successor on May 5 in the British capital’s fifth ever election to a post established in 2000.
Galloway, former lawmaker, challenges Conservative Party frontrunner Zac Goldsmith and Labour's Sadiq Khan on a multicultural and multi-religious platform with a housing crisis solutions as his priority.
