Your Party could team up with Greens to keep Nigel Farage out of Downing Street, Zarah Sultana suggestts

Zarah Sultana has suggested your party team up with the Greens to keep Nigel Farage out of Downing Street at the next election.

While the Coventry South MP acknowledged “we are fundamentally different parties”, he said “conversations need to be had around electoral alliances”.

This came after the new movement decided to make the name Your Party permanent at the end of a chaotic inaugural conference in which Ms Sultana boycotted people within the organization on the first day of the conference, accusing them of creating a “toxic culture” and citing a “witch hunt”.

Members also narrowly voted against a single elected leader, opting instead for a collective model that appoints a committee of members.

Jeremy Corbyn admitted there had been “disappointments” in the formation of the team but said “we have come a long way” as he closed the meeting in Liverpool last weekend.

Speaking to the BBC’s program with Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday, Ms Sultana admitted that setting up Your Party “was not an easy process”.

“Neither myself nor Jeremy has ever founded a new party before. We have never designed their structure, so it has not been an easy process,” he said.

Ms Sultana said the problems they have dealt with in the past were related to member democracy, adding: “All in all, the last few months were really difficult but we are moving forward.”

Asked what his message would be to voters looking at the Green Party rather than “a party that struggles to agree with itself” like Your Party, the Coventry South MP told the programme: “Given that Labor has left the scene and seen multiple parties speaking for their interests, I think it is important for voters to have a choice and to be able to look to the left of politics.

“Obviously the Green Party has a new leader who is doing a really good job and I get along really well with Zack Polanski.”

Asked whether she would work with him and whether he would defect, the former Labor MP said: “I think there needs to be conversations about electoral alliances. We should be looking at the next election, where the aim should be to prevent Nigel Farage from getting the keys to Downing Street.”

“But fundamentally, we are different parties. We are a socialist party. We are a party that will represent the working class and is not afraid to talk about the material problems that affect workers.”

A poll conducted in October revealed that the Green Party and Labor were neck-and-neck after Zack Polanski was elected leader.

It follows a turbulent first few months for your party, marred by internal division, with a dispute between Mr Corbyn and Ms Sultana resulting in a failed membership launch and threats of legal action.

Ms Sultana complained that she was being subjected to a “sexist boys’ club” after supporters were invited to officially become members of the party and provide financial support to it.

But Mr Corbyn described it as an “unauthorised email” and warned people not to sign up via the link in a statement published on social media just hours later.

In an extraordinary row at the party’s inaugural meeting last month, Ms Sultana said she would not enter the main conference center in Liverpool after one of her supporters, Kingston councilor James Giles, was allegedly denied entry. Other members were expelled on Friday for allegedly being members of the Socialist Workers Party.

Speaking to the BBC on Sunday, Sultana also said there should be a referendum on the monarchy.

He said: “Obviously the party doesn’t have policies yet, but it’s important that we articulate a different vision of society and economy, and indeed that doesn’t just cover companies, businesses and our public services, but also questions about the monarchy.

“When you have a royal family with a sovereign endowment that will rise to £132 million next year, and you have Prince Andrew (a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein) with £12 million of taxpayers’ money to cover his legal costs, we need to have a referendum on the monarchy and talk about democratizing society too.”

When asked if he would campaign to abolish the monarchy, your party’s MP said: “Absolutely. I’m a republican.”