Fractious Your Party to pick new leader next month

Your Party will elect a new leadership by the end of February after co-founders Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana were barred from standing under new rules.

- KATE DEVLIN

Members of the fledgling left-wing group will vote over the next two months, after they decided in November to put a “collective” headed by a non-MP in charge. A second option, for a traditional sole leader, which would have seen Mr Corbyn and former Labour MP Ms Sultana battle it out to lead the new party, was rejected by a narrow margin.

The results will be announced on 26 February, Your Party said. But it will not have candidates in place for the local elections in May, and will instead support “community independents”. Members in Scotland and Wales will decide the party’s stance on the Holyrood and Senedd elections the same month, the party said.