Politics LIVE: Jeremy Corbyn’s new hard-left party plunged into chaos as splits emerge in bitter antisemitism row

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George Bunn

By George Bunn


Published: 18/08/2025

- 07:05

Updated: 18/08/2025

- 09:20
George Bunn

By George Bunn


Published: 18/08/2025

- 07:05

Updated: 18/08/2025

- 09:20

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Jeremy Corbyn's Your Party has been plunged into chaos as a bitter spat appeared to break out with his co-leader Zarah Sultana.

Ms Sultana, who last month launched the new political party alongside Mr Corbyn, condemned the disgraced former Labour leader's decision to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism.


This definition includes "drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis", and "holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel".

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She said: "I think we're in a very different political moment. We have to build on the strengths of Corbynism - its energy, mass appeal and bold policy platform - and we also have to recognise its limitations.

"It capitulated to the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, which famously equates it with anti-Zionism and which even its lead author Kenneth Stern has now publicly criticised."

However, the Vice President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Andrew Gilbert, said: "The IHRA definition has been adopted by the Government and public institutions in this country and around the world, and is supported by the overwhelming majority of British Jews as it is clear and measured in defining anti-Semitism.

"Calling the recognition of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism a 'capitulation' is a grave insult."

A spokesman for Campaign Against Antisemitism added: "If Jews do not have the right to define the hatred that targets them, then who does?

"Does Zarah Sultana think that it should be herself?"

Meanwhile, Alex Hearn, the Director of Labour Against Antisemitism, said: "Zarah Sultana has fundamentally misrepresented the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism."

Responding to the reports, Sultana, the MP for Coventry South, said: "The smears won’t work this time. I say it loudly and proudly: I’m an anti-Zionist. Print that."

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Labour minister says days of Putin's 'illegal invasion' are numbered as he welcomed White House intervention

Health minister Stephen Kinnock has told GB News the days of Vladimir Putin's "illegal invasions are over" as he welcomed President Trump's talks.

Sir Keir Starmer will join European leaders in presenting a united front with President Zelensky at his crunch meeting at the White House with Donald Trump.

Mr Kinnock told The People's Channel: "It's a vitally important meeting today and it's very good the President has made more progress on getting these talks.

"We want to send a clear message to Moscow that the days of Putin's illegal invasions are over."

WATCH: Britons should 'no longer have to put up with' the migrant crisis, Andrea Jenkyns says

Dame Andrea Jenkyns has launched a scathing attack on "soft touch Britain" as she fiercely defended anti-migrant hotel protests this weekend.

Speaking to GB News, the Reform UK Mayor for Greater Lincolnshire stated that "Britons have had no say" in the housing of illegal migrants in hotels and HMOs across the country.

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British public has 'snapped' over asylum hotels, says Robert Jenrick

Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick has declared that "enough is enough" as he said the patience of the British public has "snapped" over asylum hotels.

Speaking at an protest in Epping, Mr Jenrick told The Telegraph: "People are absolutely sick to their back teeth of what’s happening here and up and down the country and for good reason.

"In the last 100 days alone, there have been almost a dozen serious sexual offence allegations. This problem has been going on for six years, 170,000 people, mostly undocumented young men, have broken into our country."

Keir Starmer must not panic about Reform UK, warns former Home Secretary

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Sir Keir Starmer must not "panic" about the threat of Nigel Farage and Reform UK, former Home Secretary Jack Straw has warned.

Straw, who served as Home Secretary from May 1997 to June 2001, and then Foreign Secretary from July 2001 to May 2006, said the Conservative party was "collapsing."

Reacting to poll results showing Reform maintaining a healthy lead, he said: "We have been here before in terms of an insurgent party leading in the polls. So I think it is the famous phrase, don’t panic."

When asked if he could see Nigel Farage as Prime Minister, he told The Guardian: "There is a chance. I think it’s a small chance, smaller than he thinks. The Tory party appears to me to just be collapsing."

Sadiq Khan says he is 'willing' to meet Donald Trump but says President is 'not a force for good'

London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan says he is "willing" to meet with President Donald Trump but added the US President is "not a force for good."

Sir Sadiq, who has been an outspoken critic of the Republican president in the past, had previously been targeted by Trump who called the Labour mayor a "nasty person."

Speaking in Edinburgh, Sir Sadiq said: "I can’t run away from the fact that there are some really serious challenges we face as a western society and President Trump, in my view, I speak generally, isn’t a force for good."

However, Sir Sadiq insisted that he would be “more than happy" to meet President Trump.

He added he wanted to show Trump that it is "possible to be proud to be a westerner and a proud to be Muslim, that it is possible to be British, and proud to be British, and be of Pakistani origin and be a law abiding citizen and we aren’t three headed monsters."

Sir Sadiq said: "I suspect President Trump may have formed a view of Muslims because of the actions of a small minority of really bad people who are terrorists and use Islam in a perverted way."

Keir Starmer heading to Washington for US-Ukraine talks

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Sir Kier Starmer is en route to Washington alongside other European leaders ahead of crunch talks between President Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.

The European leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Freidrich Merz hoping in particular to lock down robust security guarantees for Ukraine that would include a US role.

The Europeans are eager to help Zelensky avoid a repeat of his last Oval Office meeting in February when Trump and Vice President JD Vance gave the Ukrainian leader a public dressing-down, accusing him of being ungrateful and disrespectful.

Health minister Stephen Kinnock told reporters this morning Vladimir Putin was dealing with a "united front" of European leaders backing President Zelensky to stop his expansionism in Europe.

He told Times Radio: "The first of all is to make it absolutely clear that any decisions taken about Ukrainian territory must be taken with the agreement of the Ukrainian government and President Zelensky.

"The other is that the pathway for Ukraine to Nato and to security guarantees cannot be dictated to them by any other country, and the other is to send a very clear message that we the British people stand firmly shoulder-to-shoulder with the Ukrainian people as we showed when we opened our homes and our hearts to the Ukrainian refugees."

Could the Greens and Your Party split the left wing vote? 

Senior pollsters have issued a warning that the left-wing vote in the country could be split if the Greens and Your Party fail to come to a deal.

Research carried out in June by More in Common suggested that the establishment of a Corbyn led-party could cut the Green's nationwide vote share from nine per cent to five per cent.

It comes as the party is undergoing a leadership contest with deputy leader Zack Polanski going head to head against MPs Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns on a joint ticket.

Ramsay, the party's current co-leader and Waveney Valley MP, said Your Party would blow Polanski's pitch "out of the water".

Meanwhile, Polanski has indicated he would be willing to co-operate with a possible Corbyn-led project but believes the Greens' position as an already established party will mean he can succeed.

Labour insiders insist 'we're not going back' as they claim Jeremy Corbyn 'led the party to extinction'

Labour insiders said Keir Starmer was able to tear "anti-Semitism" out at the roots of Labour as they said the party would "not go back".

A party source told The Telegraph: "The electorate has twice made their view clear about a Jeremy Corbyn-led party.

"Keir Starmer’s Labour Party rightly tore anti-Semitism out at its roots.

"Corbyn almost led the party to extinction. We’re not going back."

Why was Jeremy Corbyn expelled from Labour?

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Jeremy Corbyn, who led Labour from 2015 to 2020, was expelled from the party after announcing he will stand as an independent candidate at last year's General Election.

His successor, Kier Starmer had banned Corbyn from standing for Labour after he claimed the scale of antisemitism in the party was "dramatically overstated".

Labour selected local entrepreneur Praful Nargund to stand against him in his Islington North seat, which Corbyn won with a majority of 7,247.

'We did this!' Tory civil war erupts over migration crisis as MP admits huge asylum hotel blunder

A Conservative MP has admitted that failures from previous Tory Governments led to a huge asylum hotel blunder.

In a Tory WhatsApp group, Broxbourne MP Lewis Cocking appeared to confess that Conservative attacks against Labour over migrant hotels were “completely unacceptable”.

Responding to a CCHQ advert which listed the perks given to asylum seekers, Mr Cocking said: “This makes us look silly as we gave them all this too, which is why we are in the mess we are in today.

“Completely unacceptable – they should be put in detention centres and deported.”

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