Jeremy Corbyn reveals the number of people who have joined Your Party

Your Party rank stands astatine 50,000, Sky News tin reveal.

The fig is good abbreviated of the 800,000 radical who expressed involvement erstwhile it launched, and it is importantly beneath the 100,000 to 200,000 insiders hoped would articulation officially arsenic members pursuing its launch successful July.

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It puts the Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn-led enactment adjacent down the Liberal Democrats, whose rank has fallen to 60,000.

While inactive deemed to beryllium respectable to those progressive successful the party, the rank update has been taken arsenic a informing that the factional infighting betwixt Ms Sultana and Mr Corbyn has damaged its hopes of instantly gathering a wide movement.

However, Your Party said it expects rank to summation arsenic much members determination implicit from the "unauthorised" rank portal launched by Ms Sultana connected 18 September.

Tensions betwixt the 2 leaders reached a boiling constituent erstwhile Ms Sultana sent retired unauthorised emails encouraging paid rank without Mr Corbyn's consent - portion besides claiming her actions were the effect of being sidelined by a "sexist boys club".

Mr Corbyn is expected to denote the 50,000 fig astatine a rally successful Islington connected Monday evening.

He is expected to say: "I americium excited to denote that 50,000 radical person present go members of Your Party.

"This large milestone reflects what Your Party is each about: a mass, antiauthoritarian question for change. From section rallies to wide determination assemblies, radical up and down the state are coming unneurotic to physique this enactment from the crushed up.

"This is conscionable the beginning. At the extremity of this month, we volition big our founding conference. This volition beryllium the infinitesimal that members travel unneurotic to motorboat our mass, antiauthoritarian question for existent change."

Ms Sultana's determination to motorboat her ain rank portal successful September culminated successful a standoff implicit the power of £800,000 worthy of donations, which has lone conscionable been resolved.

The cookware of wealth had been held by an entity called MOU operations - controlled by erstwhile Labour MP Beth Winter, erstwhile Labour politician Jamie Driscoll and erstwhile South African person Andrew Feinstein - who person present each quit.

Sky News revealed past week that Ms Sultana present had sole power of the £800,000 and that she has assured Mr Corbyn that the wealth volition beryllium transferred to the enactment arsenic a whole.

It is understood the wealth has not yet been transferred successful full.

The wealth collected by MOU successful rank fees is not expected to beryllium transferred to Your Party arsenic those who paid are entitled to a refund.

Some 20,000 radical signed up to Ms Sultana's portal but Your Party inactive does not person entree to their emails, meaning determination is nary mode of contacting them.

There are concerns wrong Your Party that the nonstop beneficiary of the enactment has been the Greens, led by Zack Polanski, whose rank has much than doubled to 150,000 people.

Following the work of the figures, Mr Polanski described the Greens arsenic the "only existent absorption near successful British politics".

Pointing to the menace helium besides poses to the Labour Party, which has slumped to 17 points successful the polls, Mr Polanski said his tendency was not to beryllium "disappointed" with Labour but to "replace them".

According to Labour's yearly accounts published successful August, enactment rank present stands astatine 333,235 - down from a highest of 532,046 astatine the extremity of 2019, erstwhile Mr Corbyn was inactive Labour leader.

However, Sir Keir Starmer inactive leads the largest enactment successful the UK.

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As of August this year, the Conservatives were reported to person 123,000 members, portion their rivals Reform person 266,172.

In caller weeks, Ms Sultana - who has spoken favourably astir immoderate signifier of electoral pact with the Greens - has sought to gully clearer dividing lines with Mr Polanski.

In a caller interrogation with Politics Joe, the Coventry South MP described Your Party arsenic "anti-Zionist" and besides suggested the UK should permission the subject confederation NATO immediately.

Mr Polanski, who is Jewish, has said helium is arrogant of his individuality but that helium does not picture himself arsenic a Zionist.

He has besides taken a much cautious stance connected NATO than Ms Sultana, saying that portion helium supported the UK's eventual withdrawal helium was not advocating for it to permission the alliance.