Members vote narrowly in favour at founding conference overshadowed by Sultana’s rift with Jeremy Corbyn
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The 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.
In advance of the results of voting on the party’s constitutional arrangements, Corbyn had said: “It’s quite hard for the public to grasp things that there are sort of 10 people who run things.”
