Your Party was launched in July 2025, with almost 800,000 people expressing interest and joining the party’s mailing list. It was formally registered two months later¹, bringing together a broad cross-section of UK activists and left groups. Despite a series of initial controversies, by the time the inaugural conference began in November 2025 enrolled membership had reached 55,000², making it the largest democratic socialist party in UK history.

BUT.

The context in which Your Party has developed is a difficult one for a struggling and deeply polarised working class in the UK. Poverty has reached record levels.³ By November 2025 support for the Labour government was less that 20%⁴ and Keir Starmer was the most unpopular Prime Minister on record⁵. Voters had also abandoned the Conservative Party, which was polling even lower than Labour⁶. The far right party Reform UK picked up many of these votes. Why? An untenable status quo has led to a huge rise in swing voters, and they are looking both to the right and the left for solutions. Significantly, 36% of Reform supporters said they were ‘desperate’ or ‘worried’ about their finances⁷. During this same period the Green Party also grew rapidly (with much of the new support coming Your Party’s initial base, as members were alienated by the internal conflicts⁸).

It is far too early to make predictions about Your Party, or how it will fare in the lead up to the 2029 general elections. However, as at April 2026 the situation looks very bleak —  public support has plunged to the point where it is not even registering in the polls⁹. Can the party bounce back or is a split inevitable? A bloc of Scottish party reps have already pulled out, announcing they will set up an alternative Scottish party¹⁰. We wish Your Party members all the best and will revise this summary as the situation develops.

In discussing the party’s structure and agenda, members at the inaugural conference (including remote participants) resolved that Your Party should:
• explicitly signal it is a socialist party;
• explicitly signal that the working class is at the heart of the social alliance it seeks to build;
• be a mass party rooted in the broadest possible social alliance;
• adopt a collective leadership model (see below);
• allow dual membership with aligned allied parties;
• allow support for independent socialist candidates;
• open voting at party conferences to all members through online voting systems;
• provide the right to recall local party officers in all members’ meetings¹¹.

Other excerpts from the Political Statement: ¹²

• “Our goal is the transfer of wealth and power, now concentrated in the hands of the few, to the overwhelming majority in a democratic, socialist society.”

• “We reject a capitalist order that is responsible for grotesque levels of inequality both at home and abroad. We favour the extension of democracy over the economy, including the public ownership of key sectors and services.”

• “Billionaires and corporations are now in control of our country. Your Party aims at its democratic and socialist transformation: by redistributing that power and wealth to all.”

Your Party accepts factions, in theory at least. The Political Statement mandates an inclusive approach: “Our task is to build a mass party for the many, rooted in the broadest possible social alliance…” ¹³. One visitor to the inaugural conference described this in this way: “They were centre-left liberals, democratic socialists, anarchists, communists, anarcho-communists and Trotskyites. You couldn’t walk for ten seconds without being handed a political pamphlet.” ¹⁴. This ‘big tent’ model was formally approved by the CEC in April 2026: “Members remain free to hold a wide range of political views and to organise within Your Party, including forming internal groupings and networks. That openness is an important part of how we build a broad and democratic political movement.” ¹⁵

That said, Your Party is clearly failing to build, and that failure is rooted in the struggle between its two leading factions: The Many, led by Jeremy Corbyn, and The Grassroots Left, led by Zarah Sultana. Accepting factions in theory is one thing; coping with factionalism is another.

The question of dual party membership has also led to conflict. In some cases Your Party has resolved that it will not accept dual membership. On the first day of the inaugural Conference several members were expelled because they were found to also be members of the Socialist Workers Party¹⁶. Members of the Revolutionary Communist Group were also excluded from the meeting. Many members were shocked by this, and M.P. Zarah Sultana boycotted the conference on the first day, saying: “…we must build a party that welcomes all socialists.” A clear majority supported this position and voted (69% in favour¹⁷) of allowing dual membership in approved parties. A proposed list of excluded parties is still being discussed (click here to view the initial proposal put to the CEC).

Members at the inaugural Conference resolved that the Party should be led by ‘ordinary members’ who have been elected to the Central Executive Committee (CEC), with the Chair, Vice-chair and Spokesperson serving as the political leadership. In the Party’s second year the CEC will begin a review into different leadership models. These will be discussed and voted on as part of the lead up to the National Conference in 2027.

Members’ decisions are binding on all Party representatives, bodies, and office holders. The Constitution allows up to four democratically-elected seats for ‘Organised Sections’, which “might include… social groups such as the LGBTQ+ community, disabled people, minority ethnic communities, women, and young people. This list is not exhaustive.” There will also be a ‘Workers’ Movement Commission’ (WMC) “consisting in senior trade union movement figures, for the Party’s first two years. The WMC shall be tasked with deepening the Party’s relations with trade unions, laying the ground for national affiliations, and drawing up a political and organising strategy to more deeply root the party in the workers’ movement”. ¹⁸

There is provision for national representatives from Scotland and Wales, with: “Members in Scotland and Wales… able to choose to establish their own constitution for the party in the relevant nation.” ¹⁹. On top of this there will be an unspecified number of ‘Policy Implementation Groups’²⁰, which will be elected to develop national policy after proposals are approved at party conference.

The Constitution allows for “organisations such as trades unions, tenants unions/associations, campaign groups, etc” to affiliate with Your Party.

Your Party has not yet established any formal international links.

As at December 2025, 28 councillors have declared their support for Your Party²¹ and the party has four serving MPs: Jeremy Corbyn, Zarah Sultana, Shockat Adam and Ayoub Khan.

At the 2025 Conference it was decided that the Party should prepare for local elections in 2026 with a “bold anti-austerity stand”. As well as fielding candidates they would also endorse and support independent socialist candidates “where there is evidence of candidates being engaged in community campaigning and having the support of their local communities or trade unions branches”. ²²

The Party’s strategy for the general elections in 2029 has yet to be decided.

1. Your Party constitution
2. Political statement
3. Organisational strategy
4. Standing orders (including Party rules)