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Zarah Sultana quits Labour to start new party with Jeremy Corbyn (www.middleeasteye.net)

submitted 4 days ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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Zarah Sultana has resigned from the UK's Labour Party after 14 years to lead a new party with former Labour leader and independent MP Jeremy Corbyn.

"Today, after 14 years, I'm resigning from the Labour Party," she said in a statement on Thursday evening local time.

"Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country."

Sultana cited the Starmer government's support for Israel's war on Gaza as a reason for leaving, saying that "this government is an active participant in genocide. And the British people oppose it."

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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's amazing that to gage if Corbyn supports Sultana's party we have to read between the lines of an interview with ITV from a few days ago instead of Corbyn just stating he's with the initiative.

Either the reports are true, or this is a major comms failure on the yet-to-be-named party's part. Having the initial talk of your new party being if the supposed co-founder is involved isn't a good look. Corbyn has a lot to be rightfully mad at the media for, but this is one is on him.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

To be clear is this "the evidence that Corbyn is furious"? A writer for the right wing "The Sunday Times"? or am I missing something?