Your Party is a socialist political party in the United Kingdom announced in July 2025 by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana. It was registered with the Electoral Commission on 30 September 2025. The party is led by its Central Executive Committee, under a system of collective leadership. Corbyn has served as the party's parliamentary leader since March 2026.
Your Party has two declared members of Parliament (MPs), Corbyn and Sultana, in the House of Commons, with two MPs in the Independent Alliance, also in the party but not declared as supporters in Parliament. Sultana had joined the Independent Alliance in July 2025, but exited in September. Two further Independent Alliance MPs had supported Your Party, but have since withdrawn their support.
There have been disputes between its key figures regarding how the party should have been launched, including a contested launch of paid membership, questions of the role of social conservatism, as well as issues regarding gender imbalance, dual membership and democratic accountability. , the party's leadership is split between Corbyn-led and Sultana-led factions, with Corbyn's faction in effective control.
History
Background The former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn stood as an independent candidate for Islington North at the 2024 general election, winning re-election. He then formed a parliamentary group, the Independent Alliance, with four independent MPs who were elected on pro-Palestinian platforms.
Discussions were held in autumn 2024 involving Corbyn and senior members of an umbrella organisation called Collective including Corbyn's former chief of staff Karie Murphy, the former Labour Mayor of the North of Tyne Jamie Driscoll (leader of Majority), Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman (leader of Aspire) and others. At the time, it was reported the intention was to create a party called "Collective". Politics Home reported one idea for the leadership group was to be Corbyn, Rahman, the former National Assembly of South Africa member Andrew Feinstein, and the former Respect Party leader Salma Yaqoob. According to The Spectator, three of the members of the Independent Alliance, Shockat Adam, Adnan Hussain and Ayoub Khan, were in favour of the creation of a political party to build momentum, but Corbyn was more hesitant. By 2025, Collective involved groups including Aspire, Just Stop Oil, The Muslim Vote, the Socialist Party, Trade Union and Socialist Coalition (TUSC), and independents in Liverpool and Harrow.
Zarah Sultana was re-elected as a Labour Party MP in 2024, but shortly afterward had the whip suspended for voting in favour of scrapping the two child benefit cap, and soon became involved in discussions towards a new party. Feinstein, Driscoll and the former Labour MP Beth Winter set up the company MoU Operations Ltd (MoU), incorporated on 2 April 2025, "to support the creation of an alliance of progressive community independents, with Jeremy Corbyn playing a central role in its formation". The directors have said that the company was not involved in the creation of Your Party.
Announcement At the start of July 2025, an online meeting of an organising committee was convened by Salma Yaqoob, bringing together various socialist activists. The discussions included Corbyn and his allies in Collective, as well as Sultana. A vote was passed in favour of forming a party co-led by Corbyn and Sultana. Corbyn and his allies had abstained, as they wished to wait until a conference setting up a new party was held to vote on the leadership.
On 3 July 2025, Sultana announced online that she was leaving Labour and planned to create a new political party with Corbyn and other independents. Independent Alliance MP Iqbal Mohamed supported her comments on social media. Corbyn confirmed there were ongoing discussions around forming a new party. Corbyn had not been expecting the announcement, and it reportedly "frustrated" him. According to The Times, Corbyn had not agreed to Sultana's statement, and had implored her to delete it after posting.
On 24 July, Corbyn and Sultana launched a website with a mailing list sign-up, and invited supporters to an inaugural conference. The website was named "Your Party", which was described by Sultana as an interim name. The other members of the Independent Alliance expressed support for the creation of a new party, and welcomed Sultana to the group.
Corbyn said that more than 80,000 people signed up to the party's mailing list in the first five hours, and in less than a week, the party had received over 600,000 sign-ups. Sky News reported that the party had about 200 councillors already involved, some of whom had come from existing independent groups. By 22 August, the party was said to have over 800,000 sign-ups, including over 23,000 in Wales, and over 40,000 in Scotland. An online form asking for suggestions for a permanent name opened on 26 August.
Membership launch dispute Membership opened in September. Mark Serwotka, the former General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, and the former Labour MP Claudia Webbe stated that they had joined the party. On 18 September 2025, Sultana and her team sent out a formal membership invitation by email to those who had expressed interest in the new party, and saw more than 22,000 sign up, which raised an estimated £500,000. Sultana announced the membership launch on her social media and attributed rumours about it being fake to "right-wing bad faith actors". On her account on the social media site X, Sultana posted a new sign-up URL for a membership portal on a different domain to the party's main website.
Within hours, the other five members of the Independent Alliance released a joint statement that urged supporters to ignore the "unauthorised email" and cancel any direct debits, and declared that legal advice was being taken. The statement was posted by Corbyn on X and circulated by email. Another statement posted on the official Your Party X account stated that the data controller had reported the matter to the Information Commissioner's Office. In January, the Information Commissioner’s Office concluded that its involvement was not required, and advised the party to consider going to the police if it wished to determine whether “serious criminal activity” occurred. The party did not refer itself to the police.
In her counter-statement on X, Sultana said that she had acted "in line with the roadmap set out to members" and "to safeguard the grassroots involvement" after having been "sidelined by the MPs named in [the] statement", adding that Your Party was being run as a "sexist boys' club" due to a lack of gender balance on the party's Working Group. She also alleged that Corbyn's former chief of staff Karie Murphy had been handed "sole financial control", and informed that membership fees were received by the company MoU Operations Ltd, in which Corbyn and his team had no direct involvement. Sultana urged Corbyn to meet with her to discuss the dispute and to make all agreements public. At the annual conference of the Peace and Justice Project on 20 September, Corbyn defended Murphy, saying he was "appalled" when people attacked her.
PoliticsHome reported that a split was now "inevitable" according to "several" party sources while some external observers speculated about the collapse of the project. Corbyn allies who spoke to BBC News and to the Middle East Eye did not believe reconciliation was likely but claimed that the party building process would follow the agreed schedule, with key decisions left to members at the November conference. Corbyn's former policy director Andrew Fisher and The Guardian journalist Owen Jones both warned that a prolonged dispute would lead to a transfer of support to the Green Party, and Corbyn's former spokesman Matt Zarb-Cousin called on Corbyn and Sultana to both join the Green Party. The Guardian reported on the following day that the "public split" contributed to a "surge" in the Green Party membership, with the party gaining over 1,400 members in 24 hours.
On 19 September, Sultana wrote she had instructed defamation lawyers to take action against the authors of "false and defamatory statements" concerning her launch of the membership portal, and described the "attacks" as "baseless" and "politically-motivated". On 20 September, Jamie Driscoll, Andrew Feinstein and Beth Winter, the directors of MoU Operations Ltd, published a letter saying they had "tried to mediate between Jeremy and Zarah for some weeks" and "demanded a meeting [to which one side had] not responded despite multiple attempts", and promising to communicate a mechanism for refunds. On 21 September, Sultana announced in a further statement she would desist from legal action "as an act of good faith" and was "determined to reconcile" during ongoing talks with Corbyn.
Official membership launch On 24 September 2025, Corbyn announced the launch of the official membership portal for the party via a video on social media, based on the same domain as the party's original website. The party said that members that signed up using the previous membership system would be carried over automatically. Later that day, Sultana reaffirmed that she was a member of the party. Following a joint appearance by Sultana and Corbyn at The World Transformed in October, Sultana said that the pair were still able to work together and compared their relationship to that of Oasis' Gallagher brothers. The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian reported that legal issues were preventing members who had signed up with the first membership portal controlled by MoU Operations Ltd from transferring their details and funds to the new system. The Guardian also reported that figures in Your Party would be taking legal action against MoU's directors. Feinstein, Winter and Driscoll subsequently resigned as directors of MoU, with Sultana taking control as the sole director of the company from 28 October.
On 29 October, the party published its draft founding documents, including plans for its constitution, the rules of the party, organisational strategy and a political statement. Party members could use an online crowd editing tool to suggest edits and suggestions, before a final version was created to be voted on at the inaugural conference. On 3 November, it was announced that Your Party membership stood at 50,000, which was below the 100,000–200,000 members that insiders had expected to sign up. Reports suggested that the total amount of money held by MoU was around £1,300,000, with £800,000 from the initial donations and the rest from Sultana's membership launch. An offer by Sultana to transfer £600,000 from MoU in a series of phases was opposed by the Independent Alliance MPs. The first £200,000 was transferred on 13 November. Ahead of the party's inaugural conference, Sultana stated that she had transferred £600,000 (of the initial donations), with any remaining money to follow when liabilities were settled and "the legal details are ironed out".