Your Party divisions laid bare at first conference

The new leftwing party founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana will be called Your Party after a vote by members, but its first conference last weekend laid bare bitter divisions.

- Ben Quinn and Geraldine McKelvie

Just over 37% of members voted for the name Your Party, provisionally adopted when it was launched earlier this year, to become permanent.

Sultana, who has been at loggerheads with Corbyn, reignited tensions with a blistering attack on those "at the top" of the party after boycotting the conference's first day in protest at the expulsion of several members belonging to the Socialist Workers party.

Members meeting in Liverpool and those online had narrowly voted by 51.6% to 48.4% for the party to be steered by a member-led executive.

Corbyn, whose preferred model was for a sole leader, had warned that he believed it was "hard for the public to grasp things" when a group of people were running the party.