No fear or favours: how Corbyn and Sultana’s party could blow up British politics

With a huge profile and no one to appease, ‘Your Party’ starts on a better footing than new parties of the pastNew political parties have a patchy record in British politics. Take Change UK, which launched amid much fanfare in the spring of 2019 and had disbanded by the end of the same year. So can Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana fare any better? In part it depends on the question you ask.The new and as-yet unnamed leftwing party formally announced by Corbyn and his fellow ex-Labour MP on Thursday, has one major advantage at its disposal: the former Labour leader’s very strong public profile. Continue reading...

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