Craig Munro
Published November 30, 2025 11:05am
Updated November 30, 2025 11:43am
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Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana take part in a discussion on Your Party earlier this year (Credits: Jacob King/PA Wire)
The left-wing party founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana finally has an official leader four months after it was founded – but it’s not who you might think.
Your Party was founded by the two Independent and former Labour MPs and they remain its two most prominent figures despite a series of fallouts and controversy.
This weekend, at the party’s first ever conference at the ACC in Liverpool – where Labour also held its conference two months ago – hundreds of supporters are casting their votes on how the party will be structured and what its policies will be.
In a shocking twist, they’ve decided that the party shouldn’t be led by Corbyn or Sultana – but instead have a collective leadership role.
The announcement drew shocked reactions in the main conference hall, particularly when it was revealed the option won with just 51.6% of the vote.
A Your Party spokesperson said: ‘This vote shows that we really are doing politics differently: from the bottom-up, not the top-down.
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‘In Westminster we have a professional political class increasingly disconnected from ordinary people, serving corporations and billionaires instead of the communities they are supposed to represent.
‘With a truly member-led party, we will offer something different: democratic, grassroots, accountable.’
Members voted for the option between 5pm on Saturday evening and 9am this morning, with a turnout of around 9,000 from an electorate of around 55,000 people.
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As a result, the party will select a chairman and deputy chairman next February – neither of whom can be an MP – and they will serve as the public leaders.
The lead-up to the party’s inaugural conference has been marked by a series of public disputes, as ex-Labour MP Sultana clashed with Corbyn and other members of the parliamentary group named the Independent Alliance.
On Saturday, she announced she would be boycotting the first day of the conference after members of another socialist party were blocked from entering the hall.
Sultana – who was the only MP linked with Your Party to explicitly back the collective leadership option – is expected to speak on the main stage of the conference hall later this afternoon.
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