George Galloway

And so here I am sitting in a police station in Gatwick Airport with armed men questioning me on my political views.

So

The trauma of all that, to be honest, being outside of the country is the least of it.

If I tell you, and nobody knows this except you and me and whoever watches, it literally broke my heart.

I now have a cardiologist.

I'm a man who never lost a day through illness at work in my entire life.

And now I have a heart condition, arrhythmia, which the consultant cardiologist, a very fine one, tells me is of recent provenance.

So you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes

to work out that these cops actually broke my heart.

Well, the terror act through which I sat in its passage and opposed every line precisely because of the possibility of its abuse in this kind of way

allows the police to seize your documents, seize your telephone, your laptop, seize everything, only at the port.

They would need a warrant to do it anywhere else in the country, and they'd be very unlikely to get one in regard to me.

But they saw the opportunity of stopping me under that act and divesting me of my whole life.

Everything, my parliamentary correspondence, my legal correspondence, my personal family pictures, my political correspondence, the members of my party, the membership list of my party, and they took it.

And this is precisely the abuse of the word terrorism that you saw in London yesterday, where old ladies, old men, people in wheelchairs, blind people are being arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding up a placard, a little piece of cardboard at their breast.

And they are being taken away under terrorism charges.

This is the nightmare that is Britain.

Your stature will definitely not be a cause for your being huckled in the way that I was.

You are a very big global figure.

They wouldn't dare to touch you to get your telephone, to get your laptop.