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

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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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[–] aqwxcvbnji@hexbear.net 3 points 13 hours ago

They have a bigger change than you think. A recent hypothetical poll put them at 10% national support (without that party actually existing or them campaigning!), and it's very likely that their spontaneous support is highly concentrated in urban areas and the red wall. That means they'r competitive in those seats. Now imagine them going in to an alliance with the Green party (=15%) and they're already bigger than the LibDems. Now if they start campaigning, and they manage to increase the turnout by 1%, steal 1% of the LibDems, and 2% of Labour and Reform each (respectively disengaged poor/working class people with whom leftist socio-economic plans resonate, dissapointed middle class Labour-voters who went to the liberals, dissapointed leftists who vote Labour because it's the best thing on the ballot, and dissapointed Labour voters who're "giving Reform a chance"), and you've suddenly got yourself the second biggest party in the election.