'Your Party' Members Vote To Make The Party's Name Permanent
Zarah Sultana speaking during the Your Party founding conference at the ACC Liverpool, 30 November 2025 (Credit: Stefan Rousseau / PA Images / Alamy Live News)
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Members of the left-wing party being set up by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana have voted to keep the name 'Your Party' permanently.
During the inaugural conference being held in Liverpool this weekend, all members were asked to vote on what to call the new party, which was temporarily named ‘Your Party' earlier this year.
Members voting online have now chosen to keep the ‘Your Party’ name permanently, with 37.06 per cent voting in favour on a 30 per cent turnout. Almost 17,000 members voted on the name.
Party members were given four options. The results were as follows:
Your Party: 37 per cent
Our Party: 15 per cent
Popular Alliance: 25 per cent
For The Many: 23 per cent
A Your Party spokesperson said: “It was Your Party all along. Our permanent name reflects what our party and our conference is all about: a radically democratic movement seeking a radical transfer of wealth and power from the few to the many.
"This weekend was a festival of democracy, breaking with the Westminster mould of top-down politics. That's what we'll be offering to voters across the country: a genuinely new kind of politics."
The weekend in Liverpool has been marked by open factional infighting, with Corbyn and Sultana holding separate events on the eve of conference.
Sultana then boycotted the first day of the conference after certain members – including one from her team of close supporters – were barred from entering the hall by what she called “faceless bureaucrats”.
On Sunday morning, it was announced that party members had voted to stop a potential leadership contest between Corbyn and Sultana after voting in favour of a 'collective leadership' option instead of the 'single leader' model.
As PoliticsHome revealed earlier this week, members were being given the choice between a single leader, who could be any successful candidate, and a ‘collective leadership’ option.
On Sunday, party members voted by a narrow margin to stop a potential leadership contest between Corbyn and Sultana, voting in favour of 'collective leadership' (51.6 per cent) instead of the 'single leader' model (48.4 per cent).
Turnout for the vote among all members was just 16 per cent. Corbyn had backed the single leader model, whereas Sultana endorsed the collective choice, and she described the decision by members to adopt the latter as “truly exciting”.
The party will now be led by the chair and deputy chair of the party’s central executive committee (CEC), both of whom must be lay members, until late 2027. MPs will be barred from leading the party for this period.
The conference on Sunday also saw Sultana deliver her keynote speech. She used the opportunity to criticise the way the conference had been organised by Corbyn allies, saying: “The expulsions, the bans, the censorship on conference floor are unacceptable.”
Sultana told the hall she had “an enormous amount of admiration and respect” for Jeremy Corbyn who “gave us hope when he became leader of the Labour Party”, before adding: “But now we are building something new.”
Her speech included calls to abolish the monarchy and to nationalise swathes of the UK economy including “the banking industry, food production, construction and so much more”.
During debates over the party rulebook, there were regular criticisms from the stage of the conference organisers, and the live stream of the hall was repeatedly cut off whenever members speaking were accused of "not speaking to the motion".
Ex-MP Claudia Webbe was among those chairing sessions at the conference.
A Labour frontbencher compared the Your Party conference to stitch-ups in their own party, saying: "Only thing missing is a regional officer standing at the back, glowering at delegates!"
