[4][21] Joti Brar, a vice-chair of the CPGB-ML, was elected as the Workers Party of Britain's deputy leader at its founding congress.

[21][4] In March 2021, the party stood its first candidate for elected office, Paul Burrows, in the by-election for Helensburgh and Lomond South ward on Argyll and Bute Council.

[34] In the 2022 local elections, Workers Party candidate Ed Woollard achieved 15% of the vote in the Bordesley and Highgate ward of Birmingham.

Three deputy leaders were elected: Chris Williamson, Andy Hudd (Vice President of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen) and Peter Ford (former Ambassador to Bahrain and Syria).

You will pay a high price for the role that you have played in enabling, encouraging and covering for the catastrophe presently going on in occupied Palestine, in the Gaza Strip.

"[41][42] Galloway won almost 40% of the vote and overturned a previous Labour majority of 9,668, achieved by former MP Tony Lloyd, whose death had precipitated the by-election.

Shahbaz Sarwar, their candidate in Longsight Ward, Manchester, unseated deputy leader of City Council Luthfur Rahman, with 2,444 votes to Labour’s 2,259.

[64] In April it was reported that the WPB candidate in Brentford and Isleworth, Nisar Malik, a former mayor of Hounslow, posted a video in which David Duke, a former "grand wizard" of the Ku Klux Klan, expressed antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jews controlling the media and the global financial system.

[65] The party launched its official campaign on 1 June, with Galloway declaring Labour leader Keir Starmer was "indistinguishable" from Rishi Sunak and had "blood on his hands" over his position on Gaza.

[66] Its 34 page manifesto, which was published in June, included policies to increase the personal tax allowance, consider nationalising some public services including rail, water, electricity and the “military-industrial complex”, oppose ULEZ and "green hysteria", regulate "Big Food" and "Big Pharma", end “creeping buro-fascism” and "cultural engineering" and instead support free speech, recognise working class "anxiety" about mass immigration, end "imperialist wars", support Palestine, withdraw from NATO, consider dropping the retirement age to 60, introduce non-means tested free school lunches and remove the UK nuclear deterrent.

[67] Also in June, it was reported that Kamran Khan, the WPB candidate in Poplar and Limehouse, "shared social media posts that mocked Holocaust Remembrance Day, claimed America is controlled by a 'Jewish mafia' and implied that anyone who learnt about Jewish history would become a Nazi.

[72][73] Craig Murray, who stood in Blackburn for the party, finished in third place behind independent candidate Adnan Hussain and incumbent Labour MP Kate Hollern.

The party's platform is outlined in its 10-point plan, in which it advocates "rebuilding British industry", universal "decent housing", "free or cheap" public transportation and an end to NHS waiting lists.

We will not be seduced by the more apocalyptic Green [sic] hysteria that floods our media but we will seek rational debate centred on democratically aligned outcomes beneficial to workers".

[83] In May 2024, Galloway told Novara Media that same-sex relationships are not "normal", while Sajid Pathan, WPB candidate for the Hulton ward in the 2024 Bolton Council election, refused to comment on the question.

[81] During the week of Galloway's by-election win, a Workers Party delegation was taking part in the World Festival of Youth in Russia.

[91][failed verification] In an article for Politics.co.uk, philosopher Rafael Holmberg argued that George Galloway's reference to Freud in an election speech signalled the possibility of a new type of political discourse in the UK.