After eight months of rows and rifts, leadership election is offering members two ‘fundamentally differing visions’
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n increasingly bloody battle for the soul of the leftwing Your Party set up by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana will come to a conclusion on Thursday, when the results of its leadership election will be announced.
After almost eight months of public spats, rows over money, accusations of sexism and rifts over policy and direction, Your Party is hoping to turn a page on the manifold misfortunes that have beset it since its launch last year. “The future of the party lies in the balance,” said one Corbyn-allied insider. “You have two fundamentally differing visions of the party and what it is for.”
Earlier this month, a Your Party event at the Missing Sock in Cambridge was packed. Members had filed past the hookah hut and double-decker bus bar in the garden to fill a meeting room where Jeremy Corbyn was ready to lay out his vision for the leftwing party, before elections to decide who would lead it.
