The chaos engulfing the Your Party conference
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The inaugural conference of Jeremy Corbyn’s Your Party takes place this weekend. But what should have been the coronation of the left’s most potent new force has become a shambles. Will they get it together in time to prevent Zack Polanski’s Greens from sweeping up the left vote?
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Guest: Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall editor, The Sunday Times.
Host: Luke Jones.
Producer: Harry Stott.
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| 0:00.0 | From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm Luke Jones. |
| 0:10.7 | Jeremy Corbyn's new party has its inaugural conference this weekend, but there's trouble at mail. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm sorry if you are at all disappointed. |
| 0:20.1 | For any misdemeanors on my part, of course I apologise, |
| 0:22.7 | but I want to make this thing work. |
| 0:25.2 | There's been infighting, briefing, |
| 0:28.0 | an argument over membership data, |
| 0:30.4 | member donations, |
| 0:32.0 | all flowing from a split between Corbyn |
| 0:35.1 | and his would-be co-leader. |
| 0:36.7 | Make some noise, Missara and Sartana. |
| 0:40.5 | Shooter death, rising deals, genocide in Gaza. |
| 0:46.1 | We are going to fight that. |
| 0:49.5 | Jeremy and Zara seem to be at loggerheads again, |
| 0:52.1 | this time over membership sign-ups. |
| 0:54.9 | Sultana later described her erstwhile colleagues as a sexist boys' club. |
| 1:02.6 | How did this happen? So soon. |
| 1:05.8 | And will this tricky start for your party, as it's called, mean it loses ground |
| 1:10.5 | in a quickly reorganising left |
| 1:13.0 | wing of British politics. |
| 1:25.1 | The story today is your party over before it's even begun. |
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