Published On: Sun, Nov 30th, 2025
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Your Party reveals new after name two days of bickering – and everyone is laughing | Politics | News

Your Party will continue to be called Your Party after members voted to keep the name following a chaotic founding conference marred by expulsions and infighting. Members also voted for a “collective leadership” model, meaning neither Jeremy Corbyn nor Zarah Sultana will lead the party.

Delegates chose the name from a shortlist of four options after two days of bitter factional warfare in Liverpool, which saw the co-founders at war with each other. The other rejected options were Our Party, For the Many, and Popular Alliance. The decision means the movement will stick with the working title it has used since its launch earlier this year.

One attendee, speaking outside the venue, told the Express that the options on offer had been “s***”.

The collective leadership vote was welcomed by Ms Sultana, who had called for more democracy in the movement. 

Mr Corbyn had called for a single leader, and the vote raises questions about who will actually control the party going forward.

The votes came at the end of a weekend that exposed deep divisions within the fledgling movement before it had even settled on a name.

Ms Sultana refused to enter the conference hall on Saturday, staging a photo-op outside and accusing organisers of conducting a “witch-hunt” against socialists after Socialist Workers Party members were expelled.

On Sunday, she finally entered to deliver a blistering speech attacking the “undemocratic” leadership and warning the party must not become “Labour 2.0”.

Mr Corbyn had refused to call Ms Sultana a “friend” in a TV interview on the opening day of the conference, laying bare the rift between the co-founders.

Four hecklers were ejected from a pre-conference rally on Friday night, with activists outside branding Mr Corbyn “Right-wing” and accusing him of betraying Ms Sultana.

Members told the Express the movement was “fundamentally split” with disputes described as “existential” rather than merely factional.

The party now faces the challenge of uniting its warring factions and establishing who actually runs it, while preparing to fight future elections under its new name, which is the same as its old one.