Your Party sets out draft plans for its constitution and leadership contest

Your Party, the leftwing movement steered by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, has set out draft constitution plans including a leadership contest in the new year, the Guardian has learned.

- Aletha Adu

Organisers say the proposals will deliver a “democratic revolution” and begin transforming Britain’s “post-Labour left” into a formal political force, while drawing a line under months of public rifts.

According to plans seen by the Guardian, the group intends to elect a leader or co-leaders by March 2026 through a one-member-one-vote system and create a 21-member central executive committee (CEC) dominated by ordinary members.

Sixteen seats would be directly elected by members, with two reserved for MPs, who would be barred from chairing. The leader’s term would be capped at 21 months, keeping the founding team in place until late 2027 unless members decide otherwise.

The CEC, chair and vice-chair model is billed as a key pillar of Your Party’s attempt to build a political organisation “accountable not to billionaires and their client politicians, but to ordinary people”, breaking decisively with what organisers call the top-down Westminster model.