Back then he spoke to a party scarred by infighting, just over a year away from a historic defeat in the 2019 general election. As he stepped on stage to address his start-up political party on Saturday, much had changed. Not only is Corbyn no longer the Labour leader, he has been kicked out of the party an event that set him on the path to founding Your Party.
Late on Friday evening, Sultana said there had been baseless attacks on my character [that] are politically motivated, adding that she intended to hold to account those responsible for making them. To that end, I have this evening instructed specialist defamation lawyers.
My sole motivation has been to safeguard the grassroots involvement that is essential to building this party. Unfortunately, I have been subjected to what can only be described as a sexist boys' club: I have been treated appallingly and excluded completely. They have refused to allow any other women with voting rights on the Working Group, blocking the gender-balanced committee that both Jeremy and I signed up to.
The tribunal is being jointly chaired by the former Labour leader and is the kind of political initiative that will be a thorn in Keir Starmer's side as his party seeks to retain the backing of leftwing and Muslim voters at the next election. The tribunal, which will be livestreamed from London, has been framed to look at what has happened in Gaza over the past two years, Britain's legal responsibilities, any evidence of British covert support for Israel, and whether the government's actions match any legal obligations to prevent a genocide.
There were people around Jeremy encouraging him to set up a new party and I told him not to, she said. It's very difficult under the first-past-the-post system for a new party to absolutely win. If it wasn't first past the post then you can see how a new party could come through, but I understand why he did it.
Corbyn has confirmed he is in discussions about creating a new leftwing political party, following Zarah Sultana's announcement she was quitting Labour to co-lead the project.
