Corbyn, Sultana turn party launch into Monty Python farce

Zarah Sultana’s website said: “We're building a new kind of political party.” How unexpectedly true that claim turned out to be.

- John Rentoul, The Independent

“Join one half of a party that has split before it is launched," the website did not go on to say. “Choose your faction and take up arms against an internal enemy provided as one of the benefits of membership.” The split in Jeremy Corbyn’s new left-wing party resembles a Monty Python farce. On Tuesday, Sultana announced that the “inaugural founding conference” of the new party would be in November, and yesterday invited supporters to sign up — £55, or £5 concession — to enter a lottery to be chosen to attend this historic event.