“It’s not called Your Party!” insisted former Labour MP Zarah Sultana on X last month after announcing plans to form a new political party with her ex-leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Your Party looked and sounded very much like it would be called Your Party, what with the URL for its website currently being yourparty.uk and the large headline greeting visitors blaring “THIS IS YOUR PARTY”. But Corbyn and Sultana have said they want supporters to come up with a proper name as part of their debate on what the new party will stand for. She says she wants it to be called The Left.
Whatever the nomenclature, the new party will not be able to put forward candidates for election until they have registered a name with the Electoral Commission – and somebody, whether that’s Corbyn, Sultana or somebody else, has already done that.
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The Commission’s website shows that “Your Party” was officially registered yesterday (August 7) with the name applying for all of Great Britain (ie not Northern Ireland, where Corbyn might not have universal appeal). It was one of two parties to be registered on the same day, along with Belper Independents, a fringe group in Derbyshire who, unlike Your Party, have already registered their logo too.
The registration does not necessarily mean, however, that Corbyn’s new outfit lodged it. Anybody could have beaten them to it – as, last month, Rats in a Sack reported how pranksters had snapped up URLs with the names of two leading Reform figures, Lee Anderson and Darren Grimes, to direct them to the websites of the Conservative Party and the YouTube video of Woody Guthrie’s Tear the Fascists Down respectively.
So is Your Party now the official name of Team Corbyn and Sultana or has some savvy rascal beaten them to it? Time will tell…
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