Jeremy Corbyn’s UK Party fractures because the muslims dont support LGBT issues and for not being anti-zionist enough

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Your Party plunged into more chaos as Muslim MP Adnan Hussain quits

Your Party's Zarah Sultana softens stance against socially conservative members

Your Party members vote to make name permanent at tense first conference

Liverpool gathering lays bare bitter divisions within new party founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana

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Your Party members vote to make name permanent at tense first conference
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Liverpool gathering lays bare bitter divisions within new party founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana

Ben Quinn and Geraldine McKelvie
Jeremy Corbyn speaking at podium at Your Party conference in Liverpool.
Jeremy Corbyn made an appeal for unity during his closing speech, saying he understood frustrations surrounding Your Party’s establishment. Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA
The new leftwing party founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana will be called Your Party after a vote by members, but its weekend conference laid bare bitter divisions.

Just over 37% of members voted for the name Your Party, provisionally adopted when it was launched earlier this year, to become permanent. The votes for others on the shortlist were 25.23% to be called For The Many, 25.23% for Popular Alliance and 14.19% for Our Party.

Sultana, who has been at loggerheads with Corbyn, reignited tensions on Sunday with a blistering attack on those “at the top” of the party after boycotting the conference’s first day in protest at the expulsion of several members belonging to the Socialist Workers party.

Members meeting in Liverpool and those online had narrowly voted by 51.6% to 48.4% for the party to be steered by a new member-led executive, with a number of public-facing roles. Corbyn, whose preferred model was for a sole leader, had warned that he believed it was “hard for the public to grasp things” when a group of people were running the party instead of a single leader.

Before the conference closed with members singing Bella ciao – the Italian anti-fascist folk song – Corbyn made an appeal for unity, saying he understood “all the frustrations” surrounding its establishment. To muted applause, he also pointedly thanked Karie Murphy, his former chief of staff during his leadership of Labour and who has become a bogey figure for some in Your Party.

The members’ endorsement of a collective leadership model staves off a potentially explosive head-to-head contest between Corbyn and Sultana. But the party’s executive will conduct a review into different options, leaving the possibility that in two years’ time a more traditional leadership structure will be in place before the general election.

Sultana had earlier hailed the members’ endorsement of a collective leadership model, saying she had been fighting for “maximum member democracy” from the start of the new party. However others in the party painted this as disingenuous, saying that her central demand from the beginning has been for “co-leadership” with Corbyn.

Zarah Sultana
Zarah Sultana during a pro-Palestine protest outside the Your Party conference in Liverpool. Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA
Speaking later from the main stage on Sunday, Sultana expressed contrition for her part in what she described as the “hiccups” around the formation of the party. Rows over money, its name and Sultana’s unilateral moves to in effect announce Your Party’s launch have divided the party and included two independent MPs choosing to leave.

However, she went on to say that, before the party moved forward it had to “confront” the events on Saturday, adding: “The expulsions, bans and censorship on conference floor are unacceptable.

“It’s undemocratic. It’s an attack on members and on this movement. And these were decisions made at the top, not by you,” she said to loud applause from some members, as others remained seated.

Opponents of Sultana in the party, including backers of Corbyn, privately accused her of seeking to undermine him by appealing to a purist vision of what a socialist party should be.

They also accuse her faction of seeking to freeze out socially conservative Muslims, and paving the way for polarising far-left groups to influence the new party’s direction.

The debates after Sultana’s speech continued to be fiery, with calls being made from the stage for the current leadership to be removed. Sultana also reiterated her earlier calls for Your Party to be an anti-Zionist party and said “we must sever all ties with the genocidal apartheid state of Israel”.

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There were also wins for the other positions advocated by Sultana and her faction in Your Party, including for members to be able to hold dual membership of other political groups. Members voted to allow dual membership by 69.2% to 30.8%.

The latter vote is significant against the backdrop of in-fighting which saw her refusing to enter the conference hall on Saturday in solidarity with delegates who were expelled over links to other leftwing parties, which she described as a “witch-hunt”.

Members of other parties will be eligible to join only after their party has been ratified by the party’s new executive and conference as being aligned with the party’s values.

Corbyn had said on Saturday that entry was granted on the condition members were not aligned with other parties registered with the Electoral Commission. He issued a call for unity as he opened the conference on Saturday, acknowledging there had been “mistakes” in the party’s foundation.

The MP for Islington North said the party had “a unique opportunity” to found “a socialist party of mass appeal” against a “triopoly of political thinking in parliament”.

But the party’s foundation has been overshadowed by internal conflict, resulting in a botched membership launch and threats of legal action. Two other independent MPs, Adnan Hussain and Iqbal Mohamed, withdrew from the party’s founding process in part due to infighting.

 

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My mad 24 hours at the Your Party conference
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Judith Woods 30 November 2025 2:36pm GMT
Later today the party will formally be named
Later today the party will formally be named Credit: Paul Cooper

The votes will soon be in. All counted and verified – or maybe not. Who can say, after the extraordinary public implosion of Your Party, Britain’s newest political parody?
Later today Britain’s frayed alliance of disillusioned socialists will formally be named, having already been shamed at this, its first party car-crash – sorry, conference – in Liverpool. Truly, in the past 48 hours Your Party has been riven with such division it’s hard to know how in Marx’s name it’s still standing.
In the Left corner, old timer Jeremy “collectivist allotments” Corbyn promising unity and hope and all the other really great socialist stuff his previous party never got around to providing.
In the Far Left corner, firebrand Zarah “trans women are women” Sultana in quite the temper, castigating her own party as toxic and accusing it of carrying out a witch hunt against Faithfuls who also happen to be in the Socialist Workers Party.
On Saturday the Coventry South MP became so self righteously aerated she boycotted her own conference. How’s that for sticking it to the patriarchy?
Uh-oh. Rookie mistake. In her absence, the ruddy members only went and voted to block both Corbyn and her from leading the party in favour of – ta-dah – collective leadership by members. Now that really was left field.

I’m no policy analyst, but I’ve read Animal Farm, comrade, and it doesn’t take a Cassandra to predict this won’t end well. In theory, I suppose Sultana can take (cold) comfort from the fact that dual membership will now be permitted. But somehow I doubt she will.
Bonkers? No, just par for the course in this utterly bizarre socialist power play that has been enacted, move by move, in the glare of the cameras.
Not since the ideological, revolutionary Bolsheviks fell out with the pragmatic, gradualist Mensheviks has there been such an embarrassingly visible schism between those at the top of a fledgling political movement of some 50,000 members.
Delegates, chosen by lottery, had come from across the country to attend this event, vote on the democratic structure of the party and, of course, hear unlikely co-founders Corbyn and Sultana.
Unsurprisingly, they weren’t scheduled to share the stage at any point due to... let’s call it different musical directions. That, and the risk of doctrinaire fisticuffs.
In just three short months, Your Party has struggled with internal divisions over leadership, membership control, funding and direction. At one point it bore the unhappy distinction of being a party with six MPs and four factions. By current standards that would make it pretty much a shoo-in for government, except there aren’t enough bedrooms in No 10 to accommodate a committee.
Plus, Your Party hasn’t got any actual policies yet. Just an awful lot of opinions, as attested by the hodgepodge of impassioned speakers addressing conference in between the hecklers.

What to expect then at the first ever Your Party conference? My 24 hours of socialist aspiration effectively began the night before, with a fascinating glimpse into the inherent tension at the heart of its Leftie leadership.
As millennial Sultana, 32, held a rabble-rousing rally in the Holiday Inn, I hunkered down in Great George Street Congregational Chapel, dubbed the city’s “third cathedral”, for a much more sedate evening of poetry with 76-year-old Jeremy Corbyn and celebrity guest, former unionist Len McCluskey. Yes, really.
The soirée took place on the edge of the city’s China Town (coincidence, comrade?) and, for a party dedicated to easing the plight of working people, the audience was noticeably low on proletariat.
The throng mostly comprised of earnest students wearing keffiyehs, middle-aged women in other interesting scarves and grey-bearded men zipped into mid-range hiking jackets. Frankly, the only way this lot were taking to the streets was in the event of a national sourdough shortage.
The programme was disrupted several times by hecklers, whereupon McCluskey demonstrated the comic chops of a pro. “Saboteurs! It’s MI5!” he exclaimed to delighted cheers.
No laughing matter
Next day at the conference venue, proceedings could have done with a similar note of levity but establishing a radical mass movement party rooted in anti-war politics, social justice and community values, is, as you can imagine, no laughing matter.
“I prefer not to think of Zarah and Jeremy constantly at loggerheads,” says Neil Cathan, 35, an English teacher with green hair and a George Orwell T-shirt. “I would like to think that a party wanting to bring about unity and end the usual factionalism would be able to contain both personalities.
“Britain urgently needs an alternative to Labour which is now lurching to the right. The Liberal Democrats are sounding OK right now, but they change position every five years; and the Greens are great but they are hampered by their name. It’s down to us.”
What’s in a name? Electability, that’s what. Which is why this conference will end with a flourish as Corbyn announces the result of a vote on what the party will be officially called.
Alongside the dreadful launch name – I surely can’t be the only one who thinks Your Party sounds like a cut-price canapé range at Aldi? – other possibilities include The People’s Party, Popular Alliance and For the Many.
But for party member Luz Acevedo, 47, originally from Colombia, deeds matter more than words. The care worker travelled to Liverpool with cavapoo Kebbles and Lulu, her chihuahua, to call for more humane migrant policies.
“I have lived in London for the past 17 years, working, paying taxes and contributing; now the Labour Party wants to punish people like me with visa restrictions,” she said. “It’s shocking and so unfair. We keep this society going.”


Trouble in (socialist) paradise
Your Party was first launched on September 18 by independent MP Corbyn and Sultana, who resigned from the Labour Party in order to join him. Four other MPs joined them as founders with the aim of creating a bold new force that would take the country in a more collective direction.
An extraordinary 800,000 people expressed an initial interest in joining and although only 50,000 went on to become members, Sultana’s camp set up a web page that collected £800,000.
But soon Your Party was mired in controversy; Sultana reportedly fell out with other founders and supporters due to exclusionary power dynamics, aka old-fashioned sexism.
She felt marginalised in a boys’ club that was predicated on informal networks, old loyalties and insider control rather than scrupulously egalitarian democratic processes.
It begs the question of what did she expect? Change, apparently. But it only gets more complicated with a new row over accessing the donation money, which was in a separate company set up by Sultana and of which she is now the sole director, the other directors having resigned en masse.
Ah, the irony of a high-minded movement founded to fight the rich being immediately destabilised by a cash-flow problem. If this seems quite amateurish that’s because it is.

Fallen comrades
It’s been a long journey to get here and not everyone made it. Most notably two of the party’s founding MPs – Adnan Hussain and Iqbal Mohamed – who have both resigned within the past fortnight. Hussain cited “persistent infighting, factional competition and a struggle for power” and claimed there was “veiled prejudice towards Muslims”.
Mohamed quit because of “the many false allegations and smears made against him and others”. These appear to have been in response to his perfectly mainstream gender critical views. “I also believe in the human rights of all trans and LGBTQ+ people but not by taking away the hard-won rights of women,” he stated.
At the time a spokesman for Sultana told this paper: “Zarah will always stand with the trans community. She believes an ironclad commitment to trans rights is non-negotiable for a socialist party.”
Feeling optimistic?
According to YouGov, just 12 per cent of adults would consider voting for Your Party, down from 18 per cent in July. And worryingly, only 4 per cent of those considering Your Party do so exclusively, with 85 per cent also open to voting Green.
Yet it’s obvious just by looking around at that there are many outliers looking for a new political home. William Essex, a 28-year-old support worker from Glasgow is wearing a Palestinian flag on one side of his head, with an LGBTQ+ flag on the other.
He is adamant the country needs a party that will care for the most vulnerable groups. “A rising tide lifts all ships and the best, most moral place to start is by helping those whose boats are the leakiest and making them shipshape.”
For Debbie Brown, Your Party is making history and she’s proud to be part of it. “I’ve finally had the opportunity to come out of the political wilderness,” said the 63-year old semi-retired teacher. “The Labour Party, that I belonged to all my life has let me and others down – now I can hope again and look to the future with optimism.”

It’s quite the accolade given Britain’s post-budget despondency and the general air of disillusionment that has prompted increasing numbers to look beyond the established parties to Nigel Farage’s Reform.
Later this afternoon, we’ll learn the new name. Or maybe members will opt to stick with the old one? Either way the party will have to stop when the work begins.
Churchill wasn’t wrong when he opined: “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” A brave new vision of socialism or a cautionary tale? Time will tell. But for now it’s Your Party and you’ll cry if you want to.

 

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sounds complicated

 

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Tweets from Reform councillors and a Telegraph article.

In HL.

Your Party definitely has its issues and they're not viable currently IMO, but these are about the most biased sources anyone could find discussing them.

We likely have nearly 4 years until a General Election. They have a long road to get a new party up and running and make it viable... amplifying right/far right voices to try and make it even harder for them is nasty work.

 

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Your Party should just throw in the towel. Right now, the Greens have a leftist platform, they have momentum, and they have some semblance of leadership and organization. It just makes more sense to support the Greens.