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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Apparent Your party implosion leaves big political vacancy on the left

Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana
Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana have managed to sort out previous spats, but the latest one seems more serious. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

A repeated question for Zack Polanski since becoming Green leader has been about cooperating with Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn, and his answer has been consistent: it’s hard to know when their party doesn’t properly exist and can’t even agree on a name. Thursday’s events show such caution was merited.

It seems increasingly likely that Your party, as it was tentatively known, will not survive as originally billed, a joint enterprise between Corbyn, the former Labour leader, and Sultana, the leftwing Coventry MP, both of whom sit in the Commons as independents.

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