It will surprise no one that Your Party has split. Why can’t the left stick together? |
Last weekend, Your Party officially split, with 250 members voting to start a second leftwing party, the Socialist Federation. Neither Jeremy Corbyn nor Zarah Sultana represent this new faction, with both remaining in Your Party.
While many of those members are part of “Grassroots Left”, Sultana’s faction of Your Party, she has no role in the new party, and is still technically a Your Party MP. Corbyn’s faction, “The Many”, has de facto had the reins of Your Party since he was elected its parliamentary leader by the executive committee in March. Two independent MPs who originally supported Your Party, Adnan Hussain and Iqbal Mohamed, have quit, and two – Shockat Adam and Ayoub Khan – remain.
Since before it even had a name, this party has had its disputes in public. When Sultana announced its foundation on X last July, Corbyn seemed peeved and surprised, even though he was apparently co-leader. By the time of the conference in November, Sultana was boycotting it and they were in a bitter wrangle about what had happened to the 800,000 early sign-ups, in terms of data, but also in terms of that wasted potential. Many members were kicked........