It hasn't even officially been founded yet but Your Party (itself a temporary name) has suffered weekly controversies and scandals.

Last Friday, Adnan Hussain, the first of the six MPs in the "steering group" organising the founding of a new left-wing party, announced he was leaving.

Now a week later, and just a week before the party's founding conference is set to begin in Liverpool, a second MP has left the party - Iqbal Mohamed, MP for Batley and Dewsbury in West Yorkshire.

"After careful consideration," Mohamed announced on Friday afternoon on X: "I have decided to leave Your Party and continue serving as I was elected as an Independent Member of Parliament for Dewsbury & Batley.

"The many false allegations and smears made against me and others, and reported as fact without evidence, have been surprising and disappointing."