Corbyn calls for unity as new left-wing party gathers

Veteran British socialist Jeremy Corbyn’s new left-wing political party faced a fresh crisis on Saturday after its co-founder, Zarah Sultana, vowed to skip the first day of its inaugural conference.

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Corbyn had called for members to “come together” at the opening of the conference, with the party seeking to move on from a messy launch and become a viable left-wing challenger to the ruling Labour party.

“As a party, we've got to come together and be united because division and disunity will not serve the interests of the people that we want to represent,” Corbyn told the conference in the northwestern English city of Liverpool.