Former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn launching new left-wing party

New enactment acceptable to situation Labour from the near arsenic government’s popularity wanes implicit payment policy, warfare successful Gaza.

United Kingdom lawmaker Jeremy Corbyn has announced helium is launching a new governmental party to tally to the near of the Labour enactment that helium antecedently led.

On Thursday, Corbyn and Member of Parliament Zarah Sultana, who some became independents aft leaving Labour, announced the caller party, which did not yet person an officially registered sanction but was temporarily dubbed “Your Party” connected its website.

In a associated statement, they said it was “time for a caller benignant of governmental party” focused connected righting societal injustices and combating a “rigged” system.

“The strategy is rigged erstwhile the authorities says determination is nary wealth for the poor, but billions for war,” the connection said, envisioning a enactment “rooted successful our communities, commercialized unions and societal movements”.

It further laid retired wide argumentation objectives, including “mass redistribution of wealthiness and power” and a committedness to a  “free and autarkic Palestine”.

It's clip for a caller benignant of governmental enactment – 1 that belongs to you.

Sign up astatine https://t.co/0bhBHhWvVa. pic.twitter.com/UwjHBf4nZQ

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) July 24, 2025

The connection called connected supporters to motion up to “be portion of the founding process”, adding that an inaugural league would beryllium held to find the party’s operation of leadership, absorption and policies.

While the timeline of the party’s motorboat was not instantly clear, the announcement comes erstwhile Labour person Keir Starmer has been haemorrhaging enactment aft his enactment ended astir 2 decades of Conservative regularisation successful past year’s July wide election.

Starmer has faced peculiar disapproval for failing to unify his enactment down signature authorities seeking to pare down the country’s payment spending. In the end, Starmer passed a softened version of the bill, aboriginal suspending a fistful of the Labour rebels who led absorption to the projected cuts.

Starmer has besides faced unit to much firmly reset ties with Israel amid its war connected Gaza and to recognise a Palestinian state.

The 76-year-old Corbyn, who took power of the absorption Labour enactment successful 2015, had stepped down arsenic person aft a trouncing by the Conservatives successful the 2019 wide election.

The Labour enactment nether Starmer past suspended Corbyn successful 2020 aft helium refused to afloat judge the findings of a probe into claims that anti-Semitism had go rampant wrong Labour’s ranks nether his leadership.

Corbyn maintained that anti-Semitism had been “dramatically overstated for governmental reasons”.

The avowed socialist, who was 1 of the astir left-wing Labour enactment leaders successful decades, ran arsenic an autarkic successful past year’s wide election, winning his Islington North spot handily.

Sultana, meanwhile, has been a subordinate of parliament for six years, and had been a subordinate of Labour’s young, left-leaning flank.

She was besides suspended from the enactment successful 2024, aft she broke from the enactment successful her absorption to a headdress connected benefits for parents with much than 2 children.

In a station connected X connected Thursday, Sultana addressed the naming of the caller party, which has generated immoderate confusion.

“It’s not called Your Party!” she wrote.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies