Zarah Sultana has introduced that she is forming a brand new UK political celebration with Jeremy Corbyn after resigning from Labour.
Sultana, who has served as MP for Coventry South since 2019, confirmed that she was quitting the Labour Get together after 14 years final night time (July 3).
It comes after she was stripped of the Labour whip final summer time when she voted to scrap the two-child profit cap. Sultana can also be a member of the Socialist Marketing campaign Group, and was its chairperson between 2020 to 2025.
“Right this moment, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Get together,” she started her letter. “Jeremy Corbyn and I’ll co-lead the founding of a brand new celebration, with different Unbiased MPs, campaigners and activists throughout the nation.”
Suntana continued: “Westminster is damaged however the true disaster is deeper. Simply 50 households now personal extra wealth than half the UK inhabitants. Poverty is rising, inequality is obscene and the two-party system gives nothing however managed decline and damaged guarantees.
“A 12 months in the past, I used to be suspended by the Labour Get together for voting to abolish the two-child profit cap and elevate 400,000 youngsters out of poverty. I’d do it once more. I voted towards scrapping winter gasoline funds for pensioners. I’d do it once more.”
“Now, the federal government desires to make disabled folks endure; they only can’t resolve how a lot.”
She added: “In the meantime, a billionaire-backed grifter [Nigel Farage] is main the polls [with Reform UK], as a result of Labour has fully failed to enhance folks’s lives. And throughout the political institution, from Farage to Starmer, they smear folks of conscience making an attempt to cease a genocide in Gaza as terrorists.
“However the reality is obvious: this authorities is an lively participant in genocide. And the British folks oppose it. We aren’t going to take this anymore.
“We’re not an island of strangers; we’re an island that’s struggling. We’d like properties and lives we will truly afford, not rip-off payments we pay each month to a tiny elite bathing in money. We’d like our cash spent on public providers, not perpetually wars.
“In 2029, the selection can be stark: socialism or barbarism. Billionaires have already got three events combating for them. It’s time the remainder of us had one. Be a part of us. The time is now.”
Right this moment, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Get together.
Jeremy Corbyn and I’ll co-lead the founding of a brand new celebration, with different Unbiased MPs, campaigners and activists throughout the nation.
Be a part of us. The time is now.
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— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) July 3, 2025
Since being suspended final 12 months, Suntana has sat within the Commons as an impartial. Nevertheless, she remained a member of the Labour Get together regardless of this.
Throughout an interview on ITV’s Peston, former Labour Chief Corbyn defined that he and fellow pro-Gaza independents would “come collectively” and stated “there can be an alternate” to the primary events.
“In case you provide weapons to anyone that’s accused of acts of genocide, because the Israeli authorities is, then you definitely your self turn out to be complicit in these acts as properly,” he continued.
Corbyn, who’s impartial, and has been MP for Islington North since 1983, stated that this various could be based mostly on “peace moderately than conflict”. He urged: “Let’s take a look at the humanity of the scenario.”
He served as Labour Chief between 2015 and 2020. In 2019, he misplaced the election to Boris Johnson’s Conservative Get together. Corbyn was succeeded as Labour Chief by present Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
He stays a member of the Socialist Marketing campaign Group, together with Sultana.
Earlier this week, Sultana spoke out towards Palestine Motion being proscribed as a terror organisation, earlier than MPs voted for it to be put into legislation (through Sky Information).
She argued that to proscribe it was “a deliberate distortion of the legislation to relax dissent, criminalise solidarity and suppress the reality”. The MP declared: “We’re all Palestine Motion.”
The draft order to amend the Terrorism Act 2000 and proscribe the group, laid in Parliament by House Secretary Yvette Cooper, handed the Commons on Wednesday (July 2) by 385 votes to 26.
Corbyn has additionally shared a assertion from the Unbiased Alliance, saying that it “unequivocally oppose[s] the proscription of Palestine Motion”.
In case you provide weapons to anyone that’s accused of acts of genocide, then you definitely your self turn out to be complicit in these acts as properly.
Right here’s why I’m calling for an impartial public inquiry into the UK’s position in one of many best crimes of our time. pic.twitter.com/rSYkMwh63g
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) July 3, 2025
In Could, Corbyn made an look at London’s Large Awake Pageant, the place he expressed his assist for “folks in a determined scenario in Gaza”.
He additionally instructed the viewers that he had tabled a invoice in Parliament, calling for an inquiry into the British army’s position in Israeli operations in Gaza. Elsewhere within the speech, he addressed the blockade of assist and meals to Gaza: “They’re being intentionally starved to loss of life.”
Earlier this 12 months, Corbyn introduced a brand new reside music marketing campaign in a bid to push the federal government to assist defend the UK’s music venues.
