Corbyn wing wins majority on Your Party ruling group

Jeremy Corbyn has beaten fellow MP Zarah Sultana to take control of Your Party's new leadership committee following a contest marred by months of public infighting, confusion and indecision.

- ATHENA STAVROU KATE DEVLIN

Mr Corbyn is set to become the group's parliamentary leader after his supporters won 14 of the 24 seats on Your Party's central executive committee (CEC), double the seven seats won by Ms Sultana's backers. In response, the former Labour leader said he wanted his “mass, socialist party” to take the fight to his successor, Sir Keir Starmer, and the Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage.

Last year, the left-wing party opted to elect a 24-strong CEC rather than a single figure to lead the party. But the contest has been seen as a proxy war between its two co-founders, with both Mr Corbyn and Ms Sultana putting forward two rival slates of candidates. Both also stood for election to the CEC’s “public office holders” section, a prerequisite to becoming the party’s parliamentary leader.

Yesterday morning, the party revealed that Mr Corbyn’s group, The Many, had won a majority on the CEC. Some 25,347 people voted in the election out of 40,985 verified Your Party members, a turnout of 62 per cent.