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Zarah Sultana has boycotted time 1 of the Your Party Conference implicit the expulsion of members of left-wing groups.
Ms Sultana co-founded Your Party with Jeremy Corbyn successful July, but the caller question has been marred with infighting from the outset.
There was a enactment connected the eve of league aft it emerged members of the Socialist Workers Party had been expelled from Your Party - arsenic Your Party rules bash not licence dual membership.
But a spokesperson for Ms Sultana branded this a "witch hunt" and said she won't beryllium returning until her code tomorrow.
She said: "Zarah met members extracurricular the league and condemned the caller expulsions. This witch hunt is indefensible. We indispensable physique a enactment that welcomes each socialists. She volition not beryllium entering the league hallway today."
Mr Corbyn declined to accidental Ms Sultana is simply a person arsenic supporters of the caller grouping gathered successful Liverpool.
Speaking to Sky News connected the eve of the conference, Mr Corbyn acknowledged "stresses and strains" successful the set-up of the enactment but said it had go "a batch amended successful the past fewer days and weeks and we're going to get done this weekend".
The erstwhile Labour person has publically clashed with Ms Sultana, the MP for Coventry South, implicit the motorboat and operation of the caller party.
Asked if they were friends, Mr Corbyn said they were "colleagues successful parliament, and we evidently pass and truthful on".
The brace appeared astatine abstracted events connected the eve of the party's inaugural gathering.
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