In the tumultuous landscape of British left-wing politics, few stories have captured the public imagination quite like the recent drama surrounding Your Party—a fledgling political entity born from the ambitions and frustrations of Labour’s most radical exiles. At the heart of this unfolding saga is Zarah Sultana, the 29-year-old MP for Coventry South, whose meteoric rise and subsequent embroilment in party infighting have come to symbolize both the promise and peril of Britain’s resurgent socialist movement.
As reported by Novara Media on October 31, 2025, the latest twist in Your Party’s saga began with briefings in The Guardian suggesting that the party was preparing to launch legal action against MoU Operations Ltd. The claim? That MoU—established just months earlier by former Labour MP Beth Winter, ex-Tyneside mayor Jamie Driscoll, and South African political veteran Andrew Feinstein—had deliberately withheld £800,000 that rightfully belonged to the party. MoU’s stated mission was to support a coalition of independent MPs and councillors, but it soon became a flashpoint in an escalating internal war.
On October 30, 2025, Winter, Driscoll, and Feinstein resigned their directorships of MoU, passing control to none other than Sultana herself. Suddenly, one of Your Party’s members was in charge of hundreds of thousands of pounds of its money—a situation that, according to sources close to Sultana, was only temporary. They insisted the funds would be transferred to the party as soon as possible. Yet, the optics were hard to ignore: a party mired in legal threats, with its finances and data locked in a complex standoff between rival factions.
How did things get so messy? The roots of the conflict stretch back to the summer of 2025, when Your Party’s formation was hamstrung by factional paralysis and indecision. Sultana, frustrated by the delays, unilaterally announced the party’s launch and declared herself and Jeremy Corbyn as co-leaders. While this bold move energized supporters—Your Party soon boasted hundreds of thousands of sign-ups to its mailing list—behind the scenes, trust was eroding fast. Hostile press briefings, private recriminations, and toxic group chats revealed a movement at war with itself.
According to Novara Media, a new rift soon emerged between Sultana and four pro-Gaza independent MPs who had originally backed her as co-leader. They were reportedly blindsided by her public announcement, and what followed was a public airing of deep-seated ideological and strategic disagreements. Should landlords or those accused of transphobia be allowed in the party? Did Corbyn do enough to counter antisemitism within Labour? Were Sultana’s political red lines too alienating for the broad coalition Your Party needed?
Factional conflict spilled into the open. Corbyn’s team, without Sultana’s approval, established an interim executive led by Karie Murphy’s allies and announced plans for a founding conference—moves Sultana suspected were aimed at seizing control of party finances and membership data. In response, Sultana’s team launched a separate membership system, which Corbyn and other MPs quickly denounced as unauthorized. Supporters were advised to cancel payments, and Sultana accused her colleagues of running a “sexist boys’ club,” even instructing defamation lawyers as the dispute escalated.
By the end of October, the situation had deteriorated further. Your Party referred itself to the Information Commissioner’s Office, and Sultana’s membership platform was taken offline amid complaints of possible fraudulent activity. Once a nominal co-leader, Sultana now found herself demoted to the rank of party member—at least formally. Meanwhile, Corbyn, ever the showman, announced plans to appear in a Christmas panto, as if to underline the surreal state of affairs.
Yet, as The Canary reported, the battle for control of MoU’s funds and data was far from over. While some party sources alleged the money was being held as political leverage, Winter, Driscoll, and Feinstein categorically denied this. The legal and political wrangling underscored a deeper problem: companies can’t simply transfer personal data or funds without assuming liabilities. The standoff left Your Party in limbo, with neither side able to claim a decisive victory.
Amidst all this, Sultana continued to shape the party’s political direction—despite having no official leadership role. She took to the media to advocate for policies such as leaving NATO and cutting diplomatic ties with Israel, stances that set her apart even from traditional Green Party positions. As UnHerd noted, Sultana criticized the Greens for not being sufficiently “anti-Zionist” and for lacking a true “class-based” socialist identity. She also floated ideas like climate reparations for Jamaica and called for a “member-led democracy,” even as she was accused of pre-defining the party’s politics on the fly.
This uncompromising approach has attracted a host of radical left-wing groups—including the Socialist Worker Party, Socialist Party, Revolutionary Communist Party, Alliance for Workers’ Liberty, and Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century—each eager to influence the party’s direction. But the influx of maximalist positions and sectarian squabbles has also fueled criticism that Sultana is courting the extremities of British Trotskyism, rather than building a broad, effective coalition.
Sultana’s personal life has become part of the story, too. Her husband, Craig Lloyd, a former trade union official, has reportedly expressed ambitions to become Your Party’s general secretary, despite lacking senior management experience. Some see the pair as the Left’s answer to the Clintons—a new power couple hoping to storm the establishment together.
Yet, as UnHerd observes, Sultana’s reputation has suffered. Public perception of Your Party has soured, with critics branding it “po-faced, hectoring, lacking in self-awareness and obsessed with arcane minutiae.” Sultana herself is now viewed by some as a “serious liability,” her penchant for scorched-earth politics undermining the painstaking work of coalition-building. Even those sympathetic to her goals worry that her attacks on colleagues—especially over issues like transgender rights—alienate potential allies at a time when unity is desperately needed to counter the rise of Reform and other right-wing forces.
Despite these setbacks, Sultana retains a substantial social media following and support from Trotskyist groups. Her confidence remains undimmed, even as the party’s internal truce remains tentative at best. Meanwhile, the Greens, under Zack Polanski, have emerged as a credible threat to Labour in the polls, prompting further defections—most recently a bevy of Scottish Greens, including councillors and activists, who joined Your Party in late October.
Regional assemblies are set to begin soon, offering a test of whether Your Party can move beyond infighting and engage its membership in meaningful political action. For now, the party’s fate—and Sultana’s—hangs in the balance, a microcosm of the broader challenges facing Britain’s fractured left.
As history has shown, political revolutions are as likely to devour their own as they are to change the world. For Sultana and Your Party, the coming months will reveal whether their story ends in tragedy, farce, or—against the odds—renewal.
