It's official - Your Party is Jeremy Corbyn's party

After months of intrigue, in-fighting and general squabbling, Jeremy Corbyn’s new party is finally official – and there’s no room at the top table for his one-time mooted co-leader Zarah Sultana.

The former Labour leader registered Your Party with the Electoral Commission on September 30, listing only himself as leader – despite there being no election to the role – with Blackburn MP Adnan Hussain as nominating officer and Marion Roberts, a former vice-chair of Camberwell and Peckham constituency Labour Party, as treasurer.

The formation of a new party was initially floated back in July when Sultana, MP for Coventry South, announced online that she was leaving Labour and planned to create a new political party with Corbyn and his motley crew of fellow independents.

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But it soon fell into recriminations over whether Corbyn had actually agreed to it, its name (“It’s not called Your Party!”, posted Sultana on X) and an unseemly episode in which Sultana appeared to unilaterally launch an online membership drive, other members of Corbyn’s ‘Independent Alliance’ distanced themselves from it and Sultana ultimately derided them as a “sexist boys’ club”.

Now, with registration to the Electoral Commission, Your Party is an official body with a name, an address – in Finsbury Park, North London – and, to precisely nobody’s surprise, a sole leader in the Absolute Boy himself. Sultana is nowhere to be seen.

Younger followers on social media, disappointed both by Sultana’s omission and the inclusion of Hussain, who has infuriated left-wing activists by describing trans women as “not biologically women”, voting against decriminalising abortion and having shares in a property company, are now urging her to abandon the upstart organisation and join Zack Polanski’s Greens.

Meanwhile, despite the party announcing it will hold its inaugural conference at Liverpool’s ACC conference centre on November 29 and 30, Sky News has reported that the centre is “unaware” of any booking on those dates. Oh, Jeremy Corbyn…