Your Party: leaderless or just hopeless? – podcast

2025-12-02 03:00

Nearly five months after Zarah Sultana unilaterally announced a new party with Jeremy Corbyn, the fledgling leftwing entity finally has a name. After a vote by thousands of its members, the party – previously with a placeholder name of Your Party – would henceforth be known as … Your Party.

Senior correspondent Geraldine McKelvie reports from the ground at Your Party’s inaugural conference – beset by feuds, boycotts, and the hopes of thousands of members looking to the party to provide a convincing leftwing alternative with a Labour government they feel has let them down.

Senior political correspondent Peter Walker tells Helen Pidd about the divisions that have beset the party so far – including between Corbyn and Sultana – and whether they can be overcome.