Former key allies of Jeremy Corbyn have refused to join his new party as they declined to leave Labour.
The former leader has said "discussions are ongoing" after Coventry South MP Zarah Sultana announced she was quitting Labour to co-lead the founding of a new party with him.
However, some of Corbyn's key allies when he was Labour leader have vowed to remain with the party rather than jump ship with the Islington North MP.
John McDonnell, who served as shadow Chancellor under Corbyn, told The Telegraph: "Just to be absolutely clear, I am a Labour Party member.“I have had the whip suspended, that’s all, and I expect it back."
Meanwhile Diane Abbott, who was Corbyn's shadow home secretary and long time ally said "no" when she was asked about whether she would join the new party.
Elsewhere, Clive Lewis, the former shadow defence secretary, intends to remain in Labour, reports The Telegraph.
Momentum, the group set up in 2015 to propel the Islington North MP's policies to the top of the Labour party, opposed the idea.
A spokesman wrote on social media: "Zarah Sultana has announced the founding of a new left-wing party. This is obviously a painful moment for us as socialists in the Labour Party, and Zarah will be a major loss.
"But we respectfully disagree with Zarah’s position. This is a complex question of strategy on which good socialists can reasonably disagree. We laid out some arguments as to why socialists should stay in Labour a few months ago."
Speaking to GB News' Chopper's Political Podcast, former adviser to Corbyn Andrew Murray said discussions had been "turbocharged by Keir Starmer's response to the crisis in Gaza".
John Curtice warns that Labour are 'no longer safe' on the left
Polling guru Sir John Curtice has warned that Labour isn’t safe on the left, even a new party set up by Jeremy Corbyn fails.
Citing a poll by More in Common that the party set up by the former Labour leader could win 10 per cent of the vote, Curtice said the pro-Corbyn faction within Labour have "already left."
Writing in The Times, he said: "Note that the new party would reduce support for the Green Party by nearly half. That is a sign that much of Corbynista Britain has already left Labour for the Greens.
"The latest British Social Attitudes report, published last week, showed that those who voted Green in record numbers last year were overwhelmingly on the left on economic issues and mostly take a liberal stance on so-called culture war issues.
"They look like just the kind of voters who would be most likely to be attracted by a Corbynista insurgency.
"The Greens did especially well among young voters and those with a university education, voters who had become a central element of the Labour coalition, but whose support the party found it most difficult to retain in 2024."
WATCH: Sunday Telegraph editor Allister Heath told GB News Keir Starmer has had 'disastrous' first year
Sir Keir Starmer could be running the "last ever Labour Government" after a "disastrous" first year in power, Editor of the Sunday Telegraph Allister Heath told GB News.
Speaking to the People's Channel, Heath claimed that the Prime Minister has had the "worst first year ever" for a Government.
Yvette Cooper vows to crackdown on illegal migrants working in Britain as immigration officers could be handed police powers
Misuse of the immigration system by food delivery firms is "disgraceful", Yvette Cooper has told GB News as she opened the door to giving police powers to immigration officers.
Cooper spoke to GB News on her first immigration raid since as Home Secretary.
She said: "We're intensifying the focus on delivery drivers because we know that there's been shocking misuse and abuse... It is just disgraceful."
RECAP: Reform UK lose two council by-elections in blow to Nigel Farage's party
Newark MP Robert Jenrick with newly elected councillor Keith Girling
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Reform UK has lost its first two council defences in a pair of by-elections overnight in a blow to Nigel Farage's party.
In Newark, the seat of shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick, newly elected Keith Girling reclaimed the Newark West ward with a majority of just eight votes against Reform's Caroline Hinds.
Elsewhere, the Liberal Democrats have won the Benfieldside by-election on Durham Council with Terry Rooney, beating Labour's Kevin Earley into second place with 800 ballots while Reform's Stephen Harrison fell into third on 747 votes.
However, it wasn't all bad news for the party as Martin Robinson became Suffolk County Council's first ever Reform councillor, taking the Tower Division seat in Bury St Edmunds with 1,332 votes.
Alastair Campbell says people should not 'underestimate' how Labour has handled the war in Gaza
Alastair Campbell said he would not "underestimate" how much the Government’s handling of the situation in Gaza has led people to question "what is Labour about?"
The former Downing Street director of communications said: "There feels to me to be a gap between the scale of the challenges facing the country as the public feel them, and the sorts of policy responses coming forward."
Campbell, a critic of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, told the BBC: "Politics isn’t just about the economy, it isn’t just about public service.
"I wouldn’t underestimate how much the Government’s handling of Gaza has really played into this sense of ‘what is Labour about? What is Labour for’?
"And it’s not that people think the Labour Government can solve every problem in the world, but when I talk about a national narrative, it’s about every situation that you’re in, feeling that there’s a project that is rooted in your values, and that is what’s being communicated over the medium and the long term."
WATCH: Christopher Hope details Jeremy Corbyn's plans to launch a new left-wing party
Jeremy Corbyn confirms plans to create new hard-left party as ex-Labour leader takes fight to 'hopeless' Keir Starmer
Disgraced ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed plans to create a new hard-left party following Zarah Sultana's announcement last night.
In a statement on Friday - the first anniversary of Labour's election win - Corbyn congratulated Sultana "on her principled decision to leave" the party.
"I am delighted that she will help us build a real alternative," he added as he vowed "real change is coming".
'Change course now!' Keir Starmer is second worst PM of 21st century, damning report says
Sir Keir Starmer’s first year as Prime Minister has been branded the second worst of the 21st century, a damning report exclusively shared with GB News has revealed.
The TaxPayers' Alliance has assessed economic performance across key indicators during the first 12 months of seven Prime Ministers.
The report assessed several factors - including economic growth, debt, unemployment, inflation, and business confidence - to score each leader’s impact on the economy...
But how did they rank?
'No plans' for Keir Starmer to celebrate one year in power, Downing Street says
PICTURED: Sir Keir Starmer celebrates VE Day's 80th anniversary on Downing Street. The PM will not be celebrating one year in power, No10 said
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Sir Keir Starmer has no plans to celebrate his one year anniversary of Labour's election landslide, No10 has said.
Downing Street said the Prime Minister "came into government to deliver change for working people" and has overseen four interest rate cuts, investment in the future of the NHS, the clean energy mission and greater access to new homes.
Britons are "impatient for change", a Downing Street spokesman, when challenged over Starmer's backsliding poll ratings, said.
"The Prime Minister is clear that people are impatient for change and he is getting on with the job."
Reform UK unleashes blistering swipe at Greens' migrant meltdown - 'France isn't a warzone!'
Reform UK has launched a scathing attack on the Greens after the party voiced its fury at Yvette Cooper's call to prosecute Channel migrants.
Every migrant who arrives in Britain on a small boat on which someone has died should be prosecuted, the Home Secretary said earlier - sparking uproar from the minor party's co-chief, Carla Denyer.
"Just sickeningly inhumane. People are forced to take dangerous small boat journeys to flee danger because for the vast majority there is no other way to claim asylum in the UK," Denyer fumed.
"The only way to prevent horrific channel deaths is to open safe routes, and Yvette Cooper knows this."
Reform's Zia Yusuf then prodded: "Britons make over 9 million trips to France a year.
"Carla, please use your platform to inform them they're venturing into a warzone?"
REVEALED: Keir Starmer's nine major U-turns in just 12 months as pressure heaped on PM
With today marking one year since Sir Keir Starmer romped to victory at last summer's election, GB News has looked into every U-turn the Prime Minister has committed in just one year in charge.
From axing his plans to slash Britain's ballooning benefits bill to reversing cuts to Winter Fuel Payments, Starmer has U-turned on multiple key decisions amid public and parliamentary backlashes.
The Prime Minister's popularity has sunk to an all-time low of just 23 per cent, according to YouGov, with nearly 70 per cent of people having an unpopular opinion of the Labour leader.
So, as Britain marks one year since Labour's victory, here are the times Starmer has flip-flopped on the big issues...
Pro-Gaza mob descends on High Court with Palestine Action facing condemnation as terrorist group in just HOURS
Crowds of pro-Gaza protesters have arrived at the High Court in London today
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Crowds of pro-Gaza protesters have arrived at the High Court in London today ahead of the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group.
Huda Ammori, the co-founder of Palestine Action, is asking the High Court to temporarily block the Government from banning the group - just days after it claimed to have been behind £7million worth of damage to planes at RAF Brize Norton.
Her barrister Raza Husain KC claimed banning PA would be an "ill-considered, discriminatory and authoritarian abuse of statutory power".
The group has "never encouraged harm to any person at all", Husain declared, quoting Ammori - while its goal "is to put ourselves in the way of the military machine".
The Home Office is opposing bids to delay the ban from becoming law - with both MPs and peers overwhelmingly supporting moves to proscribe it under the Terrorism Act 2000.
RECAP: Nigel Farage swipes at Keir Starmer as Corbyn-led party plunges Labour into 'death spiral'
Nigel Farage and Reform UK have taken a string of swipes at Sir Keir Starmer's Labour after one of his MPs quit the party to start a new one with Jeremy Corbyn.
Zarah Sultana declared that "Westminster is broken" as she finally left Labour to set up a new hard-left party alongside independent MPs.
And just seconds later, Farage declared: "If you thought Keir Starmer was having a bad week, it just got a whole lot worse."
While Reform's "Doge" chief Zia Yusuf added: "Lol - the odds of Nigel Farage being PM just narrowed further."
It also comes just days after landmark polling revealed a new Corbyn-led party would pull support away from Labour at an election.
Polling by More In Common revealed that said party would take in 10 per cent of the vote, while Starmer's would backslide by three percentage points,
Yusuf later said: "As British politics fractionalises further, the defining competitive advantage for a party will be having a leader with a vision, who truly believes in something.
"The Tories lost this decades ago, and are now speed running their death spiral. Labour is about to join them."
And ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe jabbed: "Looks like I'm going to be even further outnumbered on our reject bench at the back of Parliament!"
Just minutes after Sultana's announcement, it was revealed that Jeremy Corbyn had not agreed to join the new party. The former Labour leader is expected to address the fiasco later today.
GRAPHED: How would a Jeremy Corbyn-led party affect national polling?
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Zia Yusuf: 'Jeremy Corbyn's new party will lose Labour many, many seats in 2029'
Zia Yusuf has weighed into the news of a new Jeremy Corbyn-led party once again
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Reform's Doge chief Zia Yusuf has weighed into the news of a new Jeremy Corbyn-led party once again.
Yusuf said: "Corbyn won more votes than Starmer did, both times that he ran.
"He has awful policies but is a vastly superior politician to Starmer.
"His new party will be enough to lose Labour many, many seats in 2029. The likelihood of a Reform majority thus improves nicely."
Kemi Badenoch outlines 12-point attack on Keir Starmer as PM marks 12 months in power
Kemi Badenoch has outlined a 12-point attack on the Prime Minister - 12 months on from the General Election.
"Congratulations Prime Minister on your first year in office," she said, before rattling off a scathing list of "Labour's top achievements".
According to the Tory chief, Starmer and Labour have:
- Frozen vulnerable pensioners;
- Let welfare spending spiral out of control;
- Turned their backs on grooming gang victims, then u-turned when exposed;
- Crippled British farming;
- Betrayed our fishermen to please Starmer's Brussels friends;
- Surrendered the Chagos Islands - and paid £30bn with the surrender;
- Higher taxes;
- Undermined free speech;
- Scrapped Rwanda deterrent for small boat crossings, resulting in a surge;
- Turned a blind eye to a two-tier justice system;
- Let violent criminals out early;
- Increased unemployment every month since they took office.
"Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. No belief and no backbone. Just u-turn after u-turn. Britain deserves better," she spat.
WATCH IN FULL: Conservative co-chairman Nigel Huddleston speaks to GB News Breakfast
'Prosecute ALL of them!' Yvette Cooper outlines assault on Channel crossers as migrant crisis spirals
Every migrant who arrives in Britain on a small boat on which someone has died should be prosecuted, Yvette Cooper has said.
"I think it's just totally appalling that you see boats where children are being crushed to death on these overcrowded boats, and yet the boat still continues to the UK," she fumed.
"We want to strengthen the law to have endangerment of life at sea be part of our laws, so we can prosecute.
"Frankly, I want to see everybody who is arriving on a boat where a child's life has been lost, frankly, should be facing prosecution, either in the UK or in France," the Home Secretary told the BBC.
"If you've got a boat where we’ve seen all of those people all climb on board that boat, they are putting everybody else’s lives at risk.
"If you get onto a boat which is so crowded that a child is crushed to death in the middle of that boat, and if you then refuse rescue from the French authorities who come to the rescue, who end up taking a child's body and small family members off that boat, and you refuse rescue, I think, frankly, you should face some responsibility and accountability for that."
But her words come on a day of damning headlines from the Channel...
Keir Starmer takes aim at Britain's unsafe streets as PM attempts to turn corner on crucial manifesto pledge
Sir Keir Starmer has taken aim at Britain's unsafe town centres in a bid to turn a corner on Labour's manifesto pledge to "take back our streets".
"For too long, theft and anti-social behaviour has blighted town centres," Starmer said. "It shouldn’t be like this. Our plan for change is putting officers back on the beat where you can see them, so businesses can thrive, and you can shop safely."
More than 500 towns across England and Wales have signed up to the Home Office's safer streets summer initiative, which will run to September 30, with more visible policing and stronger enforcement to "restore confidence in policing".
That comes after Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick issued a damning 50-word assessment upon Labour's one-year anniversary in power.
"Starmer promised safer streets but he's released thousands of criminals early and is set to scrap short prison sentences altogether which will unleash a crime wave," Jenrick told GB News.
"There has never been a better time to be a criminal... In many instances, the police have been reduced to a crime reporting service."
WATCH IN FULL: Liberal Democrats deputy leader Daisy Cooper speaks to GB News Breakfast
Yvette Cooper slaps down Zarah Sultana after hard-left MP finally quits Labour
The Home Secretary has jabbed that Zarah Sultana has "always taken a very different view" to Labour ministers after the hardliner MP quit the party last night.
"I think she has always taken a very different view to most people in the Government on a lot of different things, and that's for her to do so," Yvette Cooper said.
Cooper also rejected the Coventry South MP's accusation that Labour was failing to improve people's lives, saying: "I just strongly disagree with her."
The Home Secretary instead hailed a drop in NHS waiting times, the announcement of additional neighbourhood police officers, extending free school meals and strengthening renters' rights as areas where the Government was acting.
"These are real changes [which] have a real impact on people's lives," she said.
Keir Starmer's manifesto pledges tracked as GB News dissects Labour's plan after one year in power
Sir Keir Starmer is failing to keep up with three out of five of his flagship 2024 commitments
| PASir Keir Starmer is failing to keep up with three out of five of his flagship 2024 commitments, GB News's manifesto tracker has revealed.
The damning verdict comes exactly one year after Starmer won his so-called "loveless landslide" of 411 MPs on just over a third of the national vote.
Labour romped to victory after setting out a five-point plan, somewhat aptly referred to as "five missions for a better Britain".
Now, GB News is stepping in to track Starmer's progress - exactly 365 days after voters swept him into No10.
What's Labour's line on the hard-left party?
"In just 12 months, this Labour Government has boosted wages, delivered an extra four million NHS appointments, opened 750 free breakfast clubs, secured three trade deals and four interest rate cuts lowering mortgage payments for millions," a Labour spokesman said after Zarah Sultana quit the party.
"Only Labour can deliver the change needed to renew Britain."