Your Party: leaderless or just hopeless?

您的政党:无领袖,还是无望?

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2025-12-02

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Geraldine McKelvie reports from the ground at the inaugural Your Party conference, while Peter Walker talks to a number of insiders about the divisions that have beset the party until now. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Today we're in Liverpool to see if your party can get it together.

  • Now is the moment you've all been waiting for.

  • It's taken five months, countless regional assemblies, and a lot of bickering.

  • But finally, this weekend, in a conference hall in Liverpool, it came down to a vote.

  • 17,000 people have spoken, and the permanent name for the party,

  • temporarily known as your party is...

  • Your party is the name of your party!

  • The next big question was, who should lead it?

  • Jeremy Corbyn, Sarah Sultana, both of them at once...

  • You voted...

  • for a collective leadership.

  • Ultimately, members decided they wouldn't have a single leader at all.

  • The party will be led by committee.

  • But will it end the chaos?

  • Guardian reporter Geraldine McKelvie was in Liverpool on the weekend for your party's conference.

  • and you've found members disappointed but determined to make your party work.

  • So what do you think about the fact that your party has had a fearly chaotic start to life?

  • I mean, I think the organisers have made a right mess of it.

  • I do think a lot of the organisational mistakes have been very regrettable and I don't want to see the same people in charge of the party.