Corbyn: 'Change is coming' as MP leaves government

JEREMY Corbyn has said “discussions are ongoing” after Zarah Sultana announced she was quitting Labour to co-lead the founding of a new party with him.

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The former Labour Party leader congratulated Coventry South MP Ms Sultana on her “principled decision” to leave Sir Keir Starmer’s party and said that the “democratic foundations of a new kind of political party will soon take shape”.

In a statement on X, Independent Islington North MP Mr Corbyn said: “Real change is coming. One year on from the election, this Labour government has refused to deliver the change people expected and deserved.

“Poverty, inequality and war are not inevitable. Our country needs to change direction, now.