Liverpool gathering lays bare bitter divisions within new party founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana
The 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.
Sultana, who has been at loggerheads with Corbyn, reignited tensions on Sunday with a blistering attack on those “at the top” of the party after boycotting the conference’s first day in protest at the expulsion of several members belonging to the Socialist Workers party.
Members meeting in Liverpool and those online had narrowly voted by 51.6% to 48.4% for the party to be steered by a new member-led executive, with a number of public-facing roles. Corbyn, whose preferred model was for a sole leader, had warned that he believed it was “hard for the public to grasp things” when a group of people were running the party instead of a single leader.
