Corbyn’s Faction Wins Majority in Your Party Vote

Jeremy Corbyn’s faction has won a majority on Your Party’s newly formed central executive committee (CEC), with party co-founder Zarah Sultana and several key allies also appointed to the group.

Corbyn’s slate, The Many, won 14 of the 24 seats in the leadership collective, while Sultana’s slate, Grassroots Left, won seven. The results mean Corbyn and Sultana’s respective factions will have to collaborate if the party is to continue, a fact made harder by months of bitter feuding.

The CEC, voted for by members in November at the party’s founding conference, was intended to dilute the influence of MPs in the party and defuse the conflict between its warring co-founders. The newly elected CEC will comprise 20 party members and four public office holders (MPs and local councillors), a highly novel leadership model for a UK political party.

Together, the CEC will set the party’s strategy, allocate resources and appoint staff. Six officers – a chair, deputy chair, secretary, spokesperson, political officer and treasurer – will run the party day-to-day, none of whom can be public office holders.

“I am delighted that members have voted for a mass, socialist party that takes the fight to Starmer and Farage,” said Corbyn in a statement. Sultana has not yet commented on the results.

25,347 people (61.8% of party members) voted in the poll, which opened earlier this month and closed on Monday.