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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectators Daily Politics Podcasts. My name's

is Megan McElroy and I'm joined today by James Heel and Tim Shipman. James, we've got a new party

in our midst. Absolutely. They were called your party, but we've had clarification that's

actually not their name. Can you tell us what's going on? Yeah, absolutely. So yesterday, Jeremy Corwin put out a statement saying sign up now for this party and the website address was your party.uk. Everyone therefore immediately right, they've got a name finally, it's the your party. Then it was made clear to everyone via a tweet by Zara Salton in response to politics, Joe, that actually it wasn't the your party and that this is all going to be decided at a conference where there'll be the leadership structure, there'll be the name, our policies will all be voted on at some point. So this is the second sort of attempt to launch a party. Obviously, Zara Sultano just announced it suddenly which would bounce Jeremy Corbyn into it, and then, of course, there's the whole fuss about the name and I think it just shows again that how difficult it is to get a party up on the

right foot what you need to have is say this is the party this is the identity this is where we're going to standing because you need to maximize turnout maximize success and concentrate your vote they fail to do that we wait to see what's going to happen but i know there's lots of conversations going on from talking to people involved in this new movement. They've been gone for a number of months now. There's hopes of potentially creating a gang of six whereby you get Zara, Zara Sultana, Jeremy Corbin, and then the four Garlander independent MPs together. So six MPs, more than reforms got, more than the Greens. And of course, could that potentially be quite a successful. The key thing about all of this stuff for these conversations is time. Next year you can have the London Borough elections. You're going to have the Birmingham City Council

elections as well. Those are the two best bets. You can plausibly see the party like this

winning potentially double-digit seats and maybe up in different areas. You think about Redbridge,

for instance, West Streetings area. That's potentially a chance for somewhere to win like this. But of course, the key thing is organisation and time. And currently we're seeing very little evidence of the organisation. There's lots of frothed energy on the left. Potentially they could form alliances with some of those sort of unions like the Baker's Union, for instance, or actually reach out to people like maybe Luke Ferrarman, who's the Mayor for Tower Hamlets, create something going, but until they start to do that,

they're not going to be successful.

And Tim... out to people like maybe Luke Ferrarman, who's the Mayor for Taur Hamlets, create something going.

But until they start to do that, they're not going to be successful.

And Tim, what do you make of the whole thing?

Well, look, when Jeremy Corbyn was last prominent in British politics,

people had various objections to him.

Some people thought he was too far to the left on economics.

I think a lot of Corbyn's fans would say that the centre

ground of British politics has shifted considerably to the left. They would claim under

his influence. I think, you know, the realities of life and the way the economy's going have

meant that, you know, quite a lot of parties are now drifting towards the left.

So that was one thing.

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