The ambitious project to forge a new united left in British politics appears to be disintegrating in real time, just days before its founding conference is scheduled to open in Liverpool. The resignation of Iqbal Mohamed on Friday—the second MP to walk away from the "Your Party" project in a single week—has transformed the upcoming launch event into a crisis management operation, fuelling intense speculation about who will be the next to abandon the crumbling alliance between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, Daily Dazzling Dawn realized.
Mohamed, the independent MP for Dewsbury and Batley, announced his departure with a stinging critique of the organization’s internal culture. In a statement that reverberated through the fractured left-wing landscape, he cited "many false allegations and smears" as the catalyst for his exit. His decision to sit as an unaffiliated independent strikes a fatal blow to the claim that "Your Party" can serve as a broad church for the disparate independent MPs elected last year.
His exit follows the shock resignation of Blackburn MP Adnan Hussain just days earlier. Hussain’s departure was perhaps even more damaging, as he publicly condemned the party’s "toxic" environment, citing "persistent infighting" and a "struggle for power" that he claimed was riddled with veiled prejudice. The loss of two key figures from the Independent Alliance in such quick succession has left the project’s credibility in tatters and shifted the focus to the remaining MPs: Shockat Adam and Ayoub Khan.
Political observers are now watching Adam and Khan closely. Both men stood alongside Corbyn and the now-departed MPs in signing a furious letter last week that accused co-leader Zarah Sultana of withholding £850,000 in donations—a dispute that laid bare the deep mistrust at the party’s core. With their close colleagues Mohamed and Hussain having cited a hostile environment as their reason for fleeing, the pressure on Adam and Khan to distance themselves from the "toxic" fallout is mounting. If they were to follow their colleagues out the door, the "Independent Alliance" would effectively cease to exist, leaving Corbyn isolated and the party without a parliamentary backbone.
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At the center of this storm is Zarah Sultana, whose political destiny within the movement she helped found looks increasingly precarious. Once heralded as the bridge to a younger generation of socialists, the Coventry South MP now finds herself isolated. Her decision to organize a separate pre-conference rally in Liverpool—competing directly with the official schedule—has been viewed by Corbyn loyalists as a declaration of factional war. With the "Independent Alliance" effectively disowning her even before their own implosion, Sultana risks presiding over a party structure that has no MPs left to support it.
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The dispute over funds remains the primary driver of the schism. The £850,000 in question was directed to MOU Operations Ltd, a company solely directed by Sultana. While she maintains that legal barriers prevent an immediate transfer, her critics view the delay as a cynical leverage play. The result is a paralyzing deadlock that has left conference organizers scrambling for cash and morale at an all-time low.
As delegates prepare to travel to Liverpool for what was meant to be a celebration, the mood is one of grim inevitability. The question is no longer whether "Your Party" can challenge the government, but whether it can survive the weekend without further high-profile defections. With Mohamed and Hussain gone, and Adam and Khan silent but watching, the "Your Party" dream risks ending not with a bang, but with a series of resignation letters.