3 h. ago 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 SultanaThe 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. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Jeremy Corbyn's breakaway Your Party finally decides on a new name after months of head scratching

Closing its inaugural conference in Liverpool, Jeremy Corbyn announced the results of a members vote, telling supporters: 'Your Party is the name of your party.'

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5 h. ago Your Party reveals new name after months of indecision and confusion

Members were told to choose between Your Party, Our Party, Popular Alliance and For The Many

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5 h. ago Corbyn faces fresh blow as new party votes for collective leadership

A collective model which puts a committee of members in charge was backed at the conference.

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10 h. ago Setback for Jeremy Corbyn as Your Party opts for collective leadership

A collective model which puts a committee of members in charge was backed at the conference.

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10 h. ago Jeremy Corbyn or Zara Sultana won't lead 'Your Party' after members' vote

The party's founding confidence voted for the new left-wing party - hit by toxic internal rows and threats of legal action - to be led by 'ordinary members' at founding conference

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10 h. ago Your Party to have ‘collective leadership’ in win for Zarah Sultana

Members vote narrowly in favour at founding conference overshadowed by Sultana’s rift with Jeremy CorbynUK politics live – latest updatesThe new leftwing party headed by Jeremy Corbyn and others has voted narrowly for it to have a ‘“collective leadership” in a win for Zarah Sultana, who has been at loggerheads with the former Labour leader.The results were announced on Sunday after a chaotic start to its founding conference in Liverpool. Sultana, a former Labour MP who now sits as an independent, had boycotted the first day of the conference amid disagreements over how Your Party – its provisional name – should be run. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana dropped as Your Party leaders

Members vote in favour of 'collective leadership' option, with a ‘lay’ chair – who cannot be an MP

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29 h. ago Voices: The revolution will not be organised: Your Party descends into farce on day one

A dour, droning speech from Jeremy Corbyn was the least of Your Party’s worries on day one of their Liverpool conference, writes Kat Brown. It will go down in history as a parody of car-crash politics

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30 h. ago Defiant Zarah Sultana ‘won’t be pushed out’ of Your Party as she slams ‘toxic culture’

Ms Sultana said she will not enter the main conference centre on Saturday in protest at a ‘witch hunt’

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30 h. ago Your Party conference in chaos as Zarah Sultana decries ‘toxic culture’

It came after Jeremy Corbyn called for unity at the start of the fledgling party’s inaugural conference.

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31 h. ago Zarah Sultana boycotts Your Party conference over ‘witch hunt’ hours after Jeremy Corbyn vowed unity

Ms Sultana said she will not enter the main conference centre on Saturday in protest at a ‘witch hunt’

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31 h. ago Your Party conference thrown into chaos as Zarah Sultana boycotts first day

Sultana skips Saturday’s proceeding in solidarity with delegates expelled over links to other partiesZarah Sultana has boycotted the first day of Your Party’s inaugural conference, throwing the party’s first official gathering into chaos amid disagreements with co-founder Jeremy Corbyn over how the party should be run.Corbyn confirmed to journalists on Saturday that he preferred a single leader and is likely to stand for the role but Sultana said she would vote for collective leadership and that she did not believe parties should be run by “sole personalities”. Continue reading...

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32 h. ago Zarah Sultana boycotts Your Party conference hours after Jeremy Corbyn vowed unity

Ms Sultana said she will not enter the main conference centre on Saturday in protest at a ‘witch hunt’

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32 h. ago Corbyn and Sultana at odds over Your Party leadership as conference opens

Delegates to choose between electing a single leader or a collective of lay members to run the leftwing movementThe two most prominent figures in Your Party are still divided over how it should be run as its inaugural conference kicked off this weekend.Jeremy Corbyn confirmed to journalists on Saturday that he preferred a single leader and is likely to stand for the role but Zarah Sultana, his co-founder, said she would vote for collective leadership and that she does not believe parties should be run by “sole personalities”. Continue reading...

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33 h. ago Jeremy Corbyn calls for unity as he opens Your Party conference

Jeremy Corbyn acknowledged there had been "mistakes" in the establishment of Your Party in a speech to the party's inaugural conference in Liverpool

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34 h. ago Jeremy Corbyn calls for unity at first Your Party conference

Opening the founding conference of 'Your Party' in Liverpool, the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn acknowledged 'mistakes', telling members: 'We've got to come together'

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35 h. ago Jeremy Corbyn insists Your Party is united despite months of infighting with Zarah Sultana

Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana were keen to put on a united front at the Your Party conference in Liverpool

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35 h. ago Zarah Sultana does not invite Jeremy Corbyn to her Your Party rally on eve of conference marred by expulsions, talk of 'witch hunts' and a row over what they should be called

Tensions continue to simmer between the party's main figures as two MPs quit and members of the Socialist Workers Party were forced out just hours before the start of the conference.

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47 h. ago Corbyn and Sultana’s party reveals name shortlist on eve of conference

The result of the ballot is to be announced by the former Labour leader on Sunday.

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