Second MP sensationally quits Jeremy Corbyn's Your Party after trans row with Zarah Sultana

Mr Mohamed beat Labour's Heather Iqbal at last year's General Election with a majority of 6,934.

He becomes the second MP to quit Your Party within a week after Blackburn MP Adnan Hussain announced his departure last Friday.

In a statement, Mr Mohamed said: "After careful consideration, I have decided to leave Your Party and continue serving as I was elected as an Independent Member of Parliament for Dewsbury & Batley.

"The many false allegations and smears made against me and others, and reported as fact without evidence, have been surprising and disappointing.

"However, I am confident that my colleagues and I have acted professionally, patiently, and in good faith throughout."

Mr Mohamed confirmed he will continue working with the Independent Alliance, the group of pro-Palestine MPs central to the founding of Your Party.

Mr Mohamed's announcement brings the founding MPs of Your Party down to four.

Those remaining in the currently untitled party are former Labour Leader and Islington North MP Mr Corbyn, Ms Sultana, Leicester South MP Shockat Adam and Birmingham Perry Barr MP Ayoub Khan.

Earlier this week, GB News exclusively revealed Ms Sultana was referred to Parliament’s standards watchdog over her handling of Your Party’s finances and membership data.

Your Party's annual inaugural party conference is set to take place in Liverpool on November 29 and 30.

Last year, Mr Mohamed made headlines after he spoke out in the Commons against calls to ban first cousin marriage in the UK.

He said that while "freedom of women must be protected at all times", he did not believe outlawing the practice would be "effective or enforceable".

The Dewsbury and Batley MP said : "There are documented health risks with first-cousin marriage and I agree this is an issue that needs greater awareness.

"However, the way to redress this is not to empower the state to ban adults from marrying each other, not least because I don't think it would be effective or enforceable.

"Instead the matter needs to be approached as a health awareness issue, a cultural issue where women are being forced against their will to undergo marriage."

Mr Hussain quit the party last Friday following a public clash with Ms Sultana over his gender-critical views.

Mr Mohamed wrote in response: "White or brown men shouldn’t be telling or forcing biological women to give up their rights and private spaces to other biological men, black, white, brown or trans. What about the biological women’s rights?"

"They have rights which I will always fight to protect. I also believe in the human rights of all trans and LGBTQ+ people but not by taking away the hard-won rights of women."

In response a spokesman for Ms Sultana told The Telegraph on Sunday: "Zarah will always stand with the trans community. She believes an ironclad commitment to trans rights is non-negotiable for a socialist party. People don’t need manufactured culture wars. They need real, material improvements in their lives. Your Party must stand up and deliver exactly that."