Your Party is a left-wing, socialist political party in the United Kingdom. It was officially registered with the Electoral Commission on 30 September 2025.

The party operates under a collective leadership structure rather than a traditional single-leader model. Since its formation, the organisation has sought to mobilise disaffected left-wing voters, local independent groups, socialist associations and pro-Palestinian activists.

However, its brief history has been characterised by factionalism and internal disputes – including between the party’s leading figures, Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn.

House of Commons representation: Zarah Sultana (Coventry South) identified as a Your Party MP in November 2025. Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North) ​​formally identified as a Your Party MP in June 2026. Other MPs are active members and leaders within the party but currently continue to sit as independents in the commons.

Local government representation: The party failed to return any official candidates running under the “Your Party” banner in the May 2026 local elections. It did also endorse independent candidates.

Who is the leader of Your Party?

Your Party does not have a single overarching leader.

Instead, it operates under a collective leadership model directed by a 24-member central executive committee (CEC). The CEC is described as “the highest body of Your Party, elected by the members, made up of the members and answerable to the members.”

It is responsible for overseeing staff, resources and activities.

The current CEC was elected in February 2026. It includes two members elected from each of the English regions, alongside reserved seats for Scotland and Wales. The remaining four seats were filled by public office holders – MPs and councillors.

The inaugural CEC is limited by a 21-month term.

The party’s leading figures, Corbyn and Sultana, helped organise rival slates for the February 2026 CEC elections. Corbyn’s slate, The Many, ran on a platform of community-led organising, while Sultana’s Grassroots Left slate campaigned for total transparency and an end to “top-down” control of the party.

In February, it was announced that Corbyn’s slate had won a majority on Your Party’s newly formed central executive committee. The Many, won 14 of the 24 seats in the leadership collective, while Grassroots Left won seven.

On 9 March, according to the new collective structure, Corbyn was formally appointed as the party’s parliamentary leader.

Corbyn, who led the Labour Party from 2015 to 2020, was first elected to parliament as the MP for Islington North in 1983. He was deprived of the Labour whip in the 2019-2024 parliament and subsequently left the party to run as an independent candidate. Following the 2024 general election, he formed the “Independent Alliance” alongside several other MPs elected on pro-Palestinian platforms before spearheading the creation of Your Party.

Jenn Forbes currently serves as the chair of the CEC and Laura Smith as vice-chair.

What does Your Party stand for?

Your Party describes itself as “a democratic, member-led socialist party that stands for peace, equality and international solidarity.” According to its literature, it is a party “for the many that will take on the privileged few at the top.”

Your Party’s ideology can be pieced together from a variety of public interventions, notable statements and the records of its leading figures (Corbyn and Sultana).

Sultana had the Labour whip withdrawn mere weeks after the 2024 general election after voting for a Scottish National Party (SNP) amendment to the king’s speech calling on the new Labour government to scrap the two-child benefit cap.

In her statement declaring her and Corbyn’s intention to found a new political party, Sultana said she would vote to scrap the two-child benefit cap “again”, noting also her opposition to the government’s decision to cut the winter-fuel payment.

She argued that the government “wants to make disabled people suffer; they just can’t decide how much” – a reference to the dramatic climbdown over the government’s package of welfare cuts which came only days previously.

Corbyn, meanwhile, was one of five independent MPs returned at the 2024 general election on platforms that emphasised Palestinian solidarity. He went on to form the so-called Independent Alliance of pro-Palestinian MPs, alongside Shockat Adam (Leicester South), Adnan Hussain (Blackburn), Ayoub Khan (Birmingham Perry Barr) and Iqbal Mohamed (Dewsbury and Batley).

In a joint statement issued upon the group’s founding, the Independent Alliance MPs committed themselves “to provide hope in a parliament of despair”.

They added: “Millions of people are crying out for a real alternative to austerity, inequality and war – and their voices deserve to be heard. As individuals we were voted by our constituents to represent their concerns in parliament on these matters, and more, and we believe that as a collective group we can carry on doing this with greater effect.”

Your Party membership

Upon the launch of its initial website in July 2025, hundreds of thousands of supporters signed up to the party’s mailing list.

By December 2025, official paid membership stood at approximately 55,000.

The emergence of Your Party

Corbynism

Jeremy Corbyn was first elected to parliament in the 1983 general election. Corbyn frequently rebelled against the party whip under the leaderships of Neil Kinnock, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Records indicate he voted against the Labour whip over 600 times while he was a Labour MP. He was the most rebellious MP in the 2001-2005 parliament (148 rebellions) and in the 2005-2010 parliament (216 rebellions).

Corbyn, a member of Labour’s Socialist Campaign Group (SCG) was the unexpected victor of the 2015 Labour leadership contest. He began the campaign as a mostly unknown 200-to-1 rank-outsider; he ended it addressing mass rallies on an explicitly, unapologetic socialist platform.

After internal opponents attempted to oust Corbyn following the 2016 Brexit referendum, he led Labour into the 2017 general election campaign. It resulted in a hung parliament – a shock outcome that saw the Conservative party lose its parliamentary majority and prime minister Theresa May’s authority severely diminished – after Labour ran an unexpectedly effective and energetic campaign.

The election outcome somewhat secured Corbyn’s standing. He led Labour MPs in their opposition to May’s Brexit deal, which was defeated on three occasions from January to March 2019. However, relations between Corbyn and Labour MPs soured markedly over the course of the 2017-2019 parliament.

The 2019 general election, Corbyn’s second as Labour leader, resulted in the party’s worst defeat since 1935. The party returned just 202 MPs.

In October 2020, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) published its report into antisemitism within the Labour Party. The report found Labour responsible for unlawful acts of harassment and indirect discrimination. In response to the report, Corbyn issued a response to the EHRC report, arguing “the scale of the [antisemitism] problem was also dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents”.

The Labour Party suspended Corbyn from membership and withdrew the parliamentary whip. His party membership was reinstated by Labour’s national executive committee disciplinary panel in November 2020, but Labour leader Keir Starmer declined to restore the parliamentary whip.

In March 2023, the Labour NEC passed a motion formally barring Corbyn from standing as a Labour candidate in the next general election. After the announcement of the 2024 general election, Corbyn left the Labour Party to run as an independent in Islington North. Corbyn announced his intentions in an article for the Islington Tribune.

Corbyn was re-elected to parliament as the Independent MP for Islington North at the 2024 general election. He received 24,120 votes in Islington North, representing 49.2% of the vote share. The Labour candidate, Praful Nargund, placed second with 16,873 votes (34.4%), while the Green Party candidate, Sheridan Kates, secured 2,660 votes (5.4%). Corbyn was duly elected with a majority of 7,247.

Corbyn went on to found the Independent Alliance of pro-Palestinian independent MPs.

Creation and early tension

Zarah Sultana was re-elected as the Labour MP for Coventry South with an increased majority. Having established herself as a vehement critic of Starmer’s Labour leadership during the 2019-2024 parliament, she continued in this vein after the 2024 general election by rebelling over the two-child benefit cap.

In February 2025, the whip was restored to four of those suspended MPs. However, Sultana – alongside Apsana Begum and former shadow chancellor John McDonnell – remained as independent MPs because they had continued to be critical of the government, reports and briefings indicated. (The whip was restored to Begum and McDonnell in September 2025).

On 2 July 2025, Sultana was one of 26 MPs to vote against the proscription of Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act of 2000. The ban, passed by 385 votes to 26, came after the Home Office accused the group of “aggressive and intimidatory attacks against businesses, institutions and the public”. However, civil liberties organisations argued proscription represented an overreach of state power and a threat to the right to protest.

The following day, 3 July, Sultana posted a statement to social media promising a new home for progressive voters disaffected with the direction of the Labour government. The move marked the most significant split on the British left in decades.

Her statement, published at 8:11 pm on a Thursday, began: “Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party. Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.”

Following her social media statement, Sultana announced she would join the Independent Alliance.

However, the apparent launch was marred by confusion over whether Corbyn had agreed to “co-lead the founding of a new party” – as the Sultana statement put it.

Corbyn’s public response to the statement was issued on the afternoon of 4 July. He was conspicuously more cautious, stating that “discussions are ongoing” over the prospect of a new party. He said he was “delighted” that Sultana would help build a left-wing “alternative” to Labour.

It was widely reported that the pair’s disparate levels of enthusiasm reflected strategic divisions and internal tensions over the founding of a new party.

On 24 July, Corbyn and Sultana launched a website which invited prospective supporters to register. The promotional material referred to “Your Party”, which was interpreted as an interim name. Hundreds of thousands of supporters signed up for the new party’s mailing list over the first few days.

However, the developments that followed Sultana’s announcement continued to reflect significant internal friction.

In September, Sultana launched a membership portal without the full agreement of Corbyn and the interim leadership. More than 20,000 people registered within hours. Corbyn publicly described the new membership portal as a “false… system” and referred the matter to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

In response, Sultana accused Corbyn’s inner circle of forming a “sexist boys’ club” that sought to exclude her from decision-making, an allegation his team denied.

Corbyn’s statement denouncing the new membership platform was co-signed by all the Independent Alliance MPs, Khan, Hussain, Mohamed and Adam – except Sultana. This appeared to signify the fact that Sultana had left the alliance. Both Corbyn and Sultana later said the dispute had been resolved, with the latter likening their relationship to the Gallagher brothers.

A poll by Ipsos in August 2025 found that one in five Britons would consider voting for a new left-wing party, rising to one in three young people and Labour voters. At the end of September, Corbyn announced the launch of the official membership portal.

The dawn of Your Party

The new organisation officially registered with the Electoral Commission as “Your Party” on 30 September 2025.

Mere weeks later, independent MPs Adnan Hussain and Iqbal Mohamed quit the party entirely. Hussain and Mohamed remained members of the Independent Alliance in the House of Commons.

In a statement published to X, Hussain said he had been disillusioned by “persistent infighting, factional competition, and a struggle for power, position and influence rather than a shared commitment to the common good”.

He stated that he was “troubled by the way certain figures within the steering process, particularly Muslim men, have been spoken about and treated. At times, the rhetoric used has been disturbingly similar to the very political forces the left claims to oppose.”

In a subsequent article for the House magazine, published on 28 November 2025, Hussain said he had left Your Party over an “increasingly rigid ideological culture that insists socially conservative values have no place in a left-wing movement.”

Mohamed, meanwhile, referred to “false allegations and smears made against me” in a statement.

He said: “After careful consideration, I have decided to leave Your Party and continue serving as I was elected as an independent member of parliament for Dewsbury and Batley…

“I will continue working with my colleagues in the Independent Alliance, which has proven highly effective in advocating for the common good in Parliament over the past eighteen months. I am grateful for the sincerity, unity and trust that has defined our work, and look forward to continuing our shared commitment to peace, justice, equality, and truth.”

On 18 November 2025, Sultana actively identified herself as a Your Party MP – the first parliamentarian to do so.

The party’s inaugural conference in Liverpool in November 2025 was marred by a first-day boycott by Sultana, who protested the expulsion of several members who also belonged to the Socialist Workers Party. Sultana described the move as a “witch-hunt.”

From the conference stage, Independent Alliance MP Shockat Adam accused rival parties of having “colonised” the minds of voters.

He stated: “We have to make this change. We have to make this happen. We must unite. We must not allow small differences to disunite us. We will not succeed – we have to stay united to make that change, our country, our future depends on it…

“Otherwise we will fail. And we cannot afford to fail. We must unite this country. We must unite our differences. And we will not let our differences consume us. [Otherwise], we will fail, we will have let down our young and our future and they will not forgive us. We have the power to change. We have the power to rise. We must use it, and we need to do so now.”

Independent Alliance MP Ayoub Khan declared: “Our struggle is about the kind of country we want to become, a country that protects the vulnerable, a country that refuses to pit us against each other, where the truth cannot be erased by those who own the media.”

He added: “For decades the established parties have had every chance to rebuild our public services, every chance to protect the most needy, every opportunity to put people before profit. And time and again they have failed.”

The conference nonetheless concluded with a significant victory for the Sultana faction; members voted by 51.6% to 48.4% to adopt a collective leadership model rather than the single-leader system preferred by Corbyn. Delegates also voted to make the Your Party name permanent.

Disillusion and division

Your Party infighting led some activists to embrace the Green Party and its new leader, Zack Polanski, as a means to advance their ideological goals. Polanski, a self-declared “eco-populist”, was elected as leader of the Greens in September 2025, succeeding the co-leadership duo of Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay. By October 2025, mere weeks after Polanski’s election, the Greens officially reached 125,000 members, surpassing both the Liberal Democrats and the Conservative Party.

Opinion polls in January 2026 placed the Greens on as high as 17%.

Also in January 2026, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued a public statement noting that Sultana’s membership portal may have involved “serious criminal activity” and recommended a referral to the police.

Your Party did not stand a candidate in the February 2026 Gorton and Denton by-election. At the time, a spokesperson said the party would “actively mobilise against the far-right, even as we continue to build a mass party that can elect socialist and anti-war candidates across the country.” Sultana issued a statement that criticised the decision not to stand a candidate and included a half-hearted endorsement for the Green Party.

Grassroots Left, the Sultana-aligned slate for the party’s inaugural CEC elections, released a statement declaring: “Grassroots Left will not lend unconditional support to the Green party candidate because the Greens are a pro-capitalist, pro-Nato party and have been enforcing cuts in councils all over the country.”

The Green Party went on to win the Gorton and Denton by-election.

The subsequent CEC elections resulted in a victory for Corbyn’s faction and his appointment as Your Party’s parliamentary leader.

At around this time, activists who were involved in the founding of the party – notably former Labour MP Beth Winter and former parliamentary candidate Andrew Feinstein – began to distance themselves from the organisation. In March 2026, Feinstein said he “eventually never actually joined as a consequence of the factionalism [and] a number of other issues.”

On 13 April, all members of Your Party’s Scottish executive committee resigned.

In a joint statement, the outgoing Scottish leadership committee said: “As a result of this consistent denial of autonomy for Scotland, and a willingness by the UK leadership to sideline an entire nation by withholding funding and mailing lists and refusing to engage, we have, after careful thought and consideration, taken the collective decision to resign our positions on [the interim Scottish executive committee], having found ourselves completely blocked when we attempted to carry out the clear mandate set for us by members from across Scotland.”

The outgoing committee accused the Your Party leadership of blocking attempts to contest the upcoming 2026 Scottish Parliament election.

In the wake of the May 2026 elections, several former members broke away to form a new party, Socialist Federation.

Joseph O’Connor, the Socialist Federation spokesperson, said: “The enthusiasm around Your Party was ruined by the actions of Jeremy Corbyn and his allies, but we have learned we don’t need celebrity politicians to organise things for us.

“It is the grassroots activists building power in working class communities and workplaces that have always been the heart of the socialist movement, not bureaucratic leaders.”

Corbyn formally identified as a Your Party MP on 10 June 2026.