Some politicians start their own political parties because they've been expelled from one for some reason. For example, in the UK in October 2003, George Galloway MP for Glasgow Kelvin was expelled from the Labour Party- then in government, for "bringing the party into disrepute". At the time, the Labour Government led by Prime Minister Tony Blair controversially supported U.S. President George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq, to disarm Saddam Hussein from what was initially believed to be possession of nuclear weapons. Galloway had been a member of the Labour Party for 36 years, and at the time, Tony Blair's leadership had shifted the party founded on left-wing democratic socialist values; to the centre-right of the political spectrum. Galloway was and still is critical of Blair's leadership, and was strongly opposed to the Iraq War; even breaking party rules by endorsing an anti-war candidate at a by-election and reportedly called for British troops to defy orders. At the 2005 UK general election, he joined the Respect-Unity coalition (later renamed the Respect Party) which stood for left-wing, anti-War, Euroskeptic values and was elected as MP for Bethnal Green and Bow; unseating Oona King of the Labour Party, who supported the war in Iraq.