Corbyn Launches Hard-Left ‘Your Party’ to Challenge Starmer
Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana have confirmed the launch of a new hard-Left party, currently called Your Party, which threatens to peel away 10% or more of the votes for Keir Starmer’s Labour. The Telegraph has more.
The former Labour leader and his fellow now-independent MP said it was “time for a new kind of political party” in a statement on Thursday.
The pair have invited voters to sign up to the Left-wing faction via the website yourparty.uk, although the Telegraph understands the new project will not be called Your Party and that its name is to be confirmed.
The website reads: “Sign up to build this party, together. Soon, we’ll host an inaugural founding conference so you can help shape how your party works, what it stands for, and how we organise to win.
“Fill in this form so that Your Party, and the new party that develops from it, can update you on news, activities and ways to get involved.”
On Thursday, Ms Sultana was forced to clarify that the new political party is not called Your Party in response to a post on X by the news site Politics Joe, which claimed that it was.
Ms Sultana wrote in response, “it’s not called Your Party!”, prompting Mike Tapp, a loyalist Labour MP, to respond with a laughing emoji.
It comes after Mr Corbyn told activists that the new movement would be established in time to fight Labour nationwide at the local elections in May next year.
In a joint statement, Mr Corbyn and Ms Sultana said: “It’s time for a new political party. One that belongs to you. The system is rigged.”
They added: “The system is rigged when 4.5 million children live in poverty in the sixth-richest country in the world. The system is rigged when giant corporations make a fortune from rising bills.
“The system is rigged when the Government says there is no money for the poor, but billions for war. We cannot accept these injustices – and neither should you.”
Opinion polls have suggested that a new party led by Mr Corbyn could win about 10% of the vote and peel away support from Sir Keir in a similar way to how Reform UK has hurt the Tories on the Right.
But Labour dismissed the prospect of the new party, with a source saying: “The electorate has twice given its verdict on a Jeremy Corbyn-led party.”
Worth reading in full.
The electorate did indeed give its verdict on a Corbyn-led party – giving it 12,877,918 votes and a 40% vote share in 2017 and 10,269,051 votes and a 32.1% vote share in 2019. Starmer, on the other hand, received just 9,708,716 votes and a 33.7% vote share in 2024 – fewer votes than Corbyn got on either occasion and well short of his 2017 vote share. Corbyn lost the election on both occasions, largely owing to a Brexit boost for the Tories. But he was still more popular than Starmer in terms of numbers of votes cast – and Starmer has become a lot more unpopular since the 2024 election.
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Labour are “hard left”.
“Opinion polls have suggested that a new party led by Mr Corbyn could win about 10% of the vote and peel away support from Sir Keir in a similar way to how Reform UK has hurt the Tories on the Right.”
Er, Reform has not “hurt” the Tories, they have rendered them unelectable.
I’m tempted to say that the last Tory government made the Tories unelectable without any help from Reform.
You’d hope so
You were tempted. And you are correct.
At least most of the real nutjobs will be in one place 🤷♂️
Ooh, do you mean Miliband and Rayner are going to join Corbyn too?
😀😀😀
Now Jezza is a man who really knows about ‘magic money.’ The manifesto should make for a fun read.
It was bound to happen.
At the moment Labour is too soft for the likes of Muslims and the more communist-leaning sections of the population.
But if Labour moves in that direction, they will lose the white English vote, which they need.
I hope this new party will split Labour, resulting in bitter, vicious infighting and mutual destruction.
You gotta hand it to Corbyn. He actually believes the shit he spouts.
Yes, I think he does.
The current political class can roughly be divided into two groups: political careerists and ideologues.
The political careerists don’t believe in anything really. These are people who realized that they are useless at anything of practical value but they can make an easy living out of politics. They just need to mouth the latest slogans.
The ideologues have an unshakable belief in some utopian solution to all the problems of society.
There is a lot of overlap: whilst Corbyn is clearly an ideologue, he would also be completely useless at anything else but being a propagandist for worn-out old ideas that have failed every single time they were tried, killing tens of millions in the process.
Looking forward to a Reform Government with a Conservative Loyal Opposition?
Looking forward to a government with Indigenous British People in it.
I joined Labour because of Corbyn.
I left Labour because of Starmer.
Apart from the climate change nonsense this new party sounds interesting.
I will probably vote for them just to help keep the liberal Labour Party out of office.
Bit worrying they can’t seem to work out what it’s called – shows their level of planning and organisation when they squander all the publicity due to lack of organisation… Corbyn does actually have principles and beliefs, I’ll give him that, unlike so many of our politicians. If they were enacted it would bankrupt us even faster, however I do have a little respect he actually believes in *something*
The latter day Socialism is based almost entirety on the climate scam though, so you have a choice to make. An old man clinging to the communist lifeboat that most people abandoned long ago, or REFORM which is probably the only realistic way to get rid of or shake up the establishments ideas.
Hard Left, so communism along the lines of Russia and China then. I must order my boiler suit.
That’s Heat Pump Suit to you matey.
Not really – something far worse than either given that both Russia and China know how to deal with muslims.
Yes, Putin solved his Muslim problem by marrying one and having two sons by her, reportedly being raised as Muslims, and suddenly all the Muslim uprisings went all quiet.
China’s leaders don’t bother with that.
What a party!! A Hamas terrorist lover and one of Mirpuri rapist tribe – what could possibly go wrong?
Been there, done that… Remember the old SDP back in the early 1980s? New political parties (or so-called parties) are hard work under our electoral system.
Reform seem to be doing OK. UKIP forced the Tories into Brexit.
What is a “so called” party and what is the difference between one of those and a NOT “so called” party?
Gosh, what a climbdown by Diane Abbott’s ex! First reports were that he was appalled by Zara Raisin announcing “their” new party without consulting him, but now he seems to have knuckled under. Just what Britain needs: Yet Another Pakistani Muslim Wannabe Prime Minister.
Going back in time, here’s a shocking old Express report about the way he introduced his colleagues to his new paramour:
“Mr Bower wrote: “Shortly after his wife’s departure from Lausanne Road, Corbyn encouraged Keith Veness and Steve Hull, another political ally, to join him in posting leaflets around a council estate and starting to canvass for the next local elections.
At about 11.30 in the morning he announced, ‘We need to collect more leaflets,’ and drove them back to his flat.
“The three of them walked in to discover a naked woman on the bed.”
“Diane Abbott, Corbyn proudly announced, was his new girlfriend.”
Jeremy Corbyn news: How Labour leader exposed his love affair with Diane Abbott | UK | News | Express.co.uk
The then 26-year-old Jamaican-origin Abbott wanted Corbyn’s Indigenous English ex-wife Jane out of the way:
“She even reportedly went to Mr Corbyn’s ex-wife’s home – seeming “nervous, tense and slightly hostile” – and instructed her to “get the hell out of here”.
Mr Bower claimed the current shadow Home Secretary said: “Get the hell out of here! You’re in the media and everywhere and I want you out of town.”
To which Ms Chapman replied: “I can’t. I’ve been elected to office.”
Jeremy Corbyn news: How Labour leader exposed his love affair with Diane Abbott | UK | News | Express.co.uk
Presumably a party led by Jeremy and Zara will be called Jezbollah or Zamas.
Nice one! 🙂
She first called upon the public to “Join Team Zara” in her new political party, without mentioning Corbyn at all, or telling him anything about it.
I thought it was going to be called Jezbollah. Perhaps Sultana wants to have her name on the ticket as well.
So how about JezZahbollah?
Or even JezZahbollocks.
🙂 ! Or the Jezbollah Raisin Party.
Oddly enough ‘Your Party’ isn’t a bad brand name. Better than ‘My Party’ [and I’ll cry if I want to].