Voices: How Corbyn and Sultana turned the launch of a new party into a Monty Python farce

Zarah Sultana’s website said: “We’re building a new kind of political party.” How unexpectedly true that claim turned out to be.

“Join one half of a party that has split before it is launched,” the website did not go on to say. “Choose your faction and take up arms against an internal enemy provided as one of the benefits of membership.”