EPISODE · Dec 5, 2025 · 49 MIN
It's 'Your Party' now, but for how long?
from The Rundown by PoliticsHome · host PoliticsHome
This week Britain’s newest party - Your Party - finally got going in earnest, after a difficult birth to say the least. Over the past few months since its unexpected launch there have been legal threats , accusations of misogyny, boycotts, expulsions, resignations, and at the heart of it all acrimony between its two leading figures; Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, and that’s all before they’d even held a conference to decide on a permanent name and leadership structure.But last weekend several thousand members put all that aside, well mostly, to meet in Liverpool, and both The House magazine's deputy editor Sienna Rogers, and PolHome reporter Tom Scotson, were up there to cover it. They join host Alain Tolhurst to talk it all over, and discuss where the party goes now, alongside Andrew Fisher, director of policy for the Labour Party under Corbyn.Sienna’s article on the formation of Your Party is available hereYou can listen to The Radio 4 Profile of Zarah Sultana she appears on hereTo read Tom’s story about MP Ayoub Khan killing a dog click hereHis article on the Muslim vote for the Telegraph is hereAnd to sign up for our newsletters click herePresented by Alain Tolhurst, produced by Nick Hilton and edited by Ewan Cameron for Podot
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This week Britain’s newest party - Your Party - finally got going in earnest, after a difficult birth to say the least. Over the past few months since its unexpected launch there have been legal threats , accusations of misogyny, boycotts, expulsions, resignations, and at the heart of it all acrimony between its two leading figures; Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, and that’s all before they’d even held a conference to decide on a permanent name and leadership structure.But last weekend several thousand members put all that aside, well mostly, to meet in Liverpool, and both The House magazine's deputy editor Sienna Rogers, and PolHome reporter Tom Scotson, were up there to cover it. They join host Alain Tolhurst to talk it all over, and discuss where the party goes now, alongside Andrew Fisher, director of policy for the Labour Party under Corbyn.Sienna’s article on the formation of Your Party is available hereYou can listen to The Radio 4 Profile of Zarah Sultana she appears on hereTo read Tom’s story about MP Ayoub Khan killing a dog click hereHis article on the Muslim vote for the Telegraph is hereAnd to sign up for our newsletters click herePresented by Alain Tolhurst, produced by Nick Hilton and edited by Ewan Cameron for Podot
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