The leftwing party formed by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana has revealed a shortlist of names for its members to choose from: Your Party, Our Party, Popular Alliance and For The Many. The party, temporarily named Your Party when launched over the summer, will ask its 50,000 members to vote on the official name, with the result announced by Corbyn on Sunday at its first conference in Liverpool.
The organisation has been beset by months of rows and infighting since its launch, including disagreements between Corbyn and Sultana over how it was launched and how money raised from members should be held. It attracted independent MPs including Ayoub Khan and Shockat Adam, but two others, Iqbal Mohamed and Adnan Hussain, have already quit amid persistent infighting and a struggle for power.
More than 2,500 members are expected to attend the Liverpool event after being selected via a lottery system. They will agree on the party’s structures, programme, and organisational strategy. Key debates include whether the party should adopt a single leader or a collective, lay-member leadership model, and whether to support socialist independents in the 2026 English local elections.
Each of the party’s MPs is expected to speak, alongside grassroots community organisers and leftwing politicians from across Europe. Ahead of the conference, Corbyn said: 'Over the last few months I’ve travelled the length and breadth of the country, speaking to people, and learning about their visions for a member-led party. I am very excited to get this party started and begin the work of building a majority for real political change.'
Sultana added: 'I’m looking forward to the Your Party founding conference, where we’ll work collectively toward our shared socialist vision. We’re building a new kind of party – rooted in and democratically accountable to a mass movement.' The conference coincides with some members having their membership cancelled over their membership of other parties, such as the Socialist Workers, despite Sultana being backed by the Socialist Unity Platform, which includes the Communist Party of Great Britain.
