UK Corbyn and Sultana Launch New Hard-Left Party to Challenge Labour

[Social Media]

 

Corbyn and Sultana Launch New Hard-Left Party to Challenge Labour

 

A fresh divide on the British Left has emerged with the announcement that Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana will co-lead a new hard-Left political party, directly challenging Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour across the country. The new group, still unnamed, marks a formal political rupture between Labour’s current leadership and the faction once at its heart.

 

 

Ms Sultana, who resigned from Labour on Thursday, revealed the plan in a message posted on X, formerly Twitter. “Jeremy and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country,” she wrote. She went on to highlight that her departure from Labour came after 14 years of membership.

 

 

The announcement follows years of tension between Labour’s Left and Starmer’s centrist leadership, and comes just five years after Mr Corbyn was expelled from the party. The new political movement aims to unite disaffected Labour supporters, independent MPs, and grassroots activists behind a revived socialist agenda.

 

Ms Sultana framed the upcoming general election as a fundamental crossroads, declaring it a choice between “socialism or barbarism.” Her stance positions the new party as a principled alternative to Labour’s perceived compromises under Starmer’s leadership.

 

The move also comes in the wake of a major policy backlash within Labour itself. Last week, Sir Keir faced a rebellion from 49 of his own MPs over proposed welfare reforms that would have reduced access to disability benefits. Facing pressure, the Labour leader was forced into a public U-turn. Ms Sultana indicated that such welfare policies were a core reason for her departure and a key issue for the new party’s campaign.

 

“A year ago I was suspended by the Labour Party for voting to abolish the two-child benefit cap and lift 400,000 children out of poverty. I’d do it again,” she wrote. “I voted against scrapping winter fuel payments for pensioners. I’d do it again. Now the Government wants to make disabled people suffer – they just can’t decide how much.”

 

Her comments suggest the new party will make benefit protections, anti-poverty measures, and expanded social care central to its platform. The formation of this new group is expected to further complicate Labour’s electoral path, particularly among younger and more left-leaning voters who once backed Corbyn in record numbers.

 

Although the party’s name and official platform have yet to be unveiled, the broader implications are already clear. A recent poll suggests that a new Left-wing force could capture up to 10 percent of the national vote—posing a serious threat to Labour’s chances of securing a clear majority. According to the same polling, if such a split occurs, Labour could find itself tied with the Conservatives at just 20 percent support each.

 

The dynamic echoes the split on the political Right, where Reform UK has drawn voters away from the Conservatives and reshaped electoral calculations. Corbyn and Sultana now appear poised to trigger a similar disruption on the Left, capitalising on discontent among Labour’s former base.

 

While Sir Keir Starmer has sought to reposition Labour closer to the political centre in a bid to win back power, the emergence of a new hard-Left alternative underscores the difficulty of uniting the party’s ideological wings—and the risks of leaving its traditional supporters behind.

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from The Telegraph  2025-07-05

 

 

[blaze master]

This will absolutely work...............not.

[The Cyclist]

3 hours ago, blaze master said:

This will absolutely work...............not.

 

Depends on your viewpoint 😀😀

 

Goodbye Labour at the next GE

 

Reform will stroll into No 10 at the next GE.

[lamyai3]

3 hours ago, Social Media said:

Corbyn and Sultana Launch New Hard-Left Party

 

If they need a name for the new party I guess they could call it Spotted Dick...

[blazes]

4 years to go till Starmer (or whoever) has to go to the country.

Worldwide volatility makes it more difficult than ever to predict much further than the next six months.

 

Perhaps the UK may have to become more "European" and make do with a coalition of some sort.

[quake]

Maybe his old friend Diane Abbott will come along.

 

[Photoguy21]

I thought Sultana was a fruit.

[JAG]

4 hours ago, lamyai3 said:

 

If they need a name for the new party I guess they could call it Spotted Dick...

Brings a whole new meaning to nutty as a fruitcake!

[GarryP]

13 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

I thought Sultana was a fruit.

Nah, she's a nut.

 

[Sir Dude]

Good, split the Labour vote as the Labour party is essentually two parties together.

There are those that thought with Starmer in charge they would get a Tony Blair/Gordon Brown "New" Labour 2.0 style government and the other lot, which is larger than many think, is Corbyn's hard-left Labour bankrolled by the unions.

No problem with me if all the far-lefty communists coalesce into a single party and everyone can see them for what they really are, rather than hiding in plain site pretending to be mainstream Labour, as they will become irrevelent and do far less damage.

Hopefully Corbyn will get all the Momentum morons to jump ship too and stop being the cancer they are in the Labour party now.

[proton]

Communist party of Britanistan

[James105]

So Labour have lost the pensioners, the farmers, the middle class parents who sent kids to private school, the small/large businesses, the white working class, the disabled, the trans and now they have lost the muslims and the Anti-Semitic jew haters on the left who will now go to the Jamas party (I presume it will be named after one terrorist group or another).  And they are going to raise taxes in the autumn, probably penalizing the people who work hard and pay tax, which is when they lose the rest of the middle class, even the ones who go to Glastonbury.   

 

This will drop Labour to around about 16-18% which is basically the public sector workers giving them about 40-50 seats.  Enjoy the demise of the UK whilst you can UK haters, as this nightmare is going to end in 2029.  

[GanDoonToonPet]

Start a new socialist party just as the country is bouncing back from a failed communist takeover? These people really do live in their own world. 🤔

[proton]

 

Real life monty python

[Chomper Higgot]

It appears some have forgotten Corbyn massively increased Labour Party Membership during his tenure as party leader and that membership plummeted when he was expelled from the party.

 

It appears too that some believe another Leftwing party would exclude Labour and/or a left wing coalition from Government.

 

Corbyn is demonstrably able to motivate people to participate in leftwing politics, particularly the young.

 

Hence the fear of Corbyn.

 

I look forward to seeing his policy manifesto.

[The Cyclist]

17 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

It appears some have forgotten Corbyn massively increased Labour Party Membership during his tenure as party leader and that membership plummeted when he was expelled from the party.

 

And you seem to have forgotten, or are blissfully unaware, that 1000's upon 1000's of non Labour people gladly paid the £3 to get Corbyn elected Labour leader.

 

The membership plummeting was those 1000's and 1000's not renewing their £3 quid membership.

[Evil Penevil]

With Corbyn and Sultana leading the new party, it is certain to be antisemitic.

[Chomper Higgot]

23 minutes ago, The Cyclist said:

 

And you seem to have forgotten, or are blissfully unaware, that 1000's upon 1000's of non Labour people gladly paid the £3 to get Corbyn elected Labour leader.

 

The membership plummeting was those 1000's and 1000's not renewing their £3 quid membership.

Or at least that’s the way you tell it. 

[blazes]

23 minutes ago, Evil Penevil said:

With Corbyn and Sultana leading the new party, it is certain to be antisemitic.

 

.....and lunatic.

[transam]

Will the Party be called, IRA-ish..............😬

[3NUMBAS]

Many towns now have ethnics  exceeding white indigenous voters ,the end is nigh,so Labour will clean up 

[Red Forever]

1 hour ago, The Cyclist said:

 

And you seem to have forgotten, or are blissfully unaware, that 1000's upon 1000's of non Labour people gladly paid the £3 to get Corbyn elected Labour leader.

 

The membership plummeting was those 1000's and 1000's not renewing their £3 quid membership.

And you seem to have forgotten that in his first election as Labour leader in June 2017 Corbyn led Labour to within a fag paper of May’s Tories with 40+% of the vote so she had to bribe a bunch of religious bigots to keep the Tories relevant. 
The trouble with the Tories is that they eventually run out of other people’s money. 
Funny innit though that of all the GEs in that decade the 2017 result is as if it never happened.

[Evil Penevil]

1 hour ago, transam said:

Will the Party be called, IRA-ish..............😬

 

Or HAMASing UK

[GroveHillWanderer]

2 hours ago, GanDoonToonPet said:

Start a new socialist party just as the country is bouncing back from a failed communist takeover? These people really do live in their own world. 🤔

Failed communist takeover? Could you explain what you're talking about?

 

The Communist Party of Great Britain has been polling at less than 0.1% since the 1970's.

 

[Evil Penevil]

Should a party led by Corbyn and Sultana ever gain power,  every Jew, from the Rothschilds on down, will  probably leave the U.K.  That's why Israel is needed as a homeland and refuge when Jews are oppressed in their countries of birth,

 

What we know about Zarah Sultana’s new left-wing political party and Jeremy Corbyn’s role

When it comes to foreign policy, the party is likely to have a strong emphasis on supporting Palestine, after Ms Sultana accused the government of being an “active participant in genocide”.

She also claimed both Sir Keir and Nigel Farage “smear people of conscience trying to stop a genocide in Gaza as terrorists”. It comes just days after Ms Sultana voted against a motion to proscribe Palestine Action as a terror organisation.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/zarah-sultana-jeremy-corbyn-political-party-labour-b2782532.html

[transam]

1 minute ago, Evil Penevil said:

Should a party led by Corbyn and Sultana ever gain power,  every Jew, from the Rothschilds on down, will  probably leave the U.K.  That's why Israel is needed as a homeland and refuge when Jews are opposed in their countries of birth,

 

What we know about Zarah Sultana’s new left-wing political party and Jeremy Corbyn’s role

When it comes to foreign policy, the party is likely to have a strong emphasis on supporting Palestine, after Ms Sultana accused the government of being an “active participant in genocide”.

She also claimed both Sir Keir and Nigel Farage “smear people of conscience trying to stop a genocide in Gaza as terrorists”. It comes just days after Ms Sultana voted against a motion to proscribe Palestine Action as a terror organisation.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/zarah-sultana-jeremy-corbyn-political-party-labour-b2782532.html

They would not get in, just talking rollox to suit their agenda with a good salary tossed in.......😬 

[portisaacozzy]

4 hours ago, quake said:

Maybe his old friend Diane Abbott will come along.

 

Diane Abbott,one of the great fifgters for the working and poor of this country,its always to remember ' which side you your butter is on ' !

[quake]

1 hour ago, portisaacozzy said:

Diane Abbott,one of the great fifgters for the working and poor of this country,its always to remember ' which side you your butter is on ' !

 

I see humor,  is not your strong point.  

 

[GanDoonToonPet]

4 hours ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

Failed communist takeover? Could you explain what you're talking about?

 

The Communist Party of Great Britain has been polling at less than 0.1% since the 1970's.

 

 

I was referring to the 'progressive' liberal virus that is currently being cleansed from our institutions.

[proton]

7 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

It appears some have forgotten Corbyn massively increased Labour Party Membership during his tenure as party leader and that membership plummeted when he was expelled from the party.

 

It appears too that some believe another Leftwing party would exclude Labour and/or a left wing coalition from Government.

 

Corbyn is demonstrably able to motivate people to participate in leftwing politics, particularly the young.

 

Hence the fear of Corbyn.

 

I look forward to seeing his policy manifesto.

 

Rejected by the electorate, they don't like extremists like comrade Corbyn the terrorists friend. His new gang will all lose their deposits