The Proxy War In Your Party
Novara Live
Novara Media
4.8 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana are putting up rival slates of candidates for elections to Your Party’s executive committee.
Plus: The latest on ICE’s mass deportation campaign, an exclusive report into NHS spending on a controversial surveillance system that films vulnerable inpatients, and Donald Trump finally gets his Nobel Peace Prize – sort of.
With Michael Walker, Steven Methven, Jennifer Forbes & Max Shanly.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Navarra Life is made possible by Navarra Media supporters. |
| 0:11.3 | To become one, go to Navaramedia.com forward slash support. |
| 0:15.8 | Welcome to Navaralife. I'm Michael Walker. I'll be joined later in the show in the studio by Stephen Mephen. |
| 0:24.4 | And coming up tonight, we'll look at the latest from ISIS mass deportation campaigns. And the sort of political fallout from that doesn't actually look good for Trump. |
| 0:33.2 | And we also have an exclusive report into NHS spending on a controversial surveillance system |
| 0:38.1 | that films impatience and has filmed some of them without their consent. |
| 0:43.6 | And Trump finally gets his Nobel Peace Prize, sort of. |
| 0:47.9 | It's a secondhand one. |
| 0:49.7 | As ever, if you'd like to support our work, you can sign up atavirmeda.com forward slash support. |
| 0:53.7 | First story, your party, founded by Jeremy Corby and Zara Sultana last year, definitely got off to a bumpy start. |
| 1:01.7 | Now, we don't need to relitigate the storm of unallegedly unauthorised launch, a potentially dodgy membership portal, |
| 1:08.2 | accusations and counter-accusations, briefings and counter-briefings, |
| 1:11.9 | and resignations that led to a very obvious rupture in the fledgling party. |
| 1:17.2 | But after the party's founding conference in Liverpool last November, |
| 1:20.7 | where members appeared to side with Zarus Altarine against Jeremy Corbyn over key constitutional |
| 1:26.6 | issues like collective leadership |
| 1:28.1 | and dual membership. It seemed as though maybe peace could break out after all because those |
| 1:35.8 | decisions had now been made instead of just being litigated in newspaper columns. Well, now the |
| 1:42.8 | elections for that collective leadership are here, and with party members |
| 1:47.2 | being asked to vote next month on who will sit on the central executive committee that will run |
| 1:51.5 | the party, because it's collective leadership, of course. One insider has already called it |
| 1:55.6 | a proxy war between the factions, and that's a quote in an article by Harriet Williamson |
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