Good morning. Over the weekend the new left-wing party being built by Jeremy Corbyn, Zarah Sultana and their supporters held its first conference. It came after months of public in-fighting and factional disputes, and in the wake of two independent MPs quitting the project before it even had a name.
In the end, the main announcement proved somewhat underwhelming – with the party sticking with the bound-to-get-confusing moniker Your Party. But the decision to have a form of collective leadership, rather than face what threatened to be a bitter contest between Corbyn and Sultana for the top job, may prove ultimately more consequential. Sultana’s refusal to attend on Saturday, in solidarity with delegates expelled over links to other parties, suggested the in-fighting isn’t over.
