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Setback for Jeremy Corbyn as Your Party opts for collective leadership
Members voted 51.6% to 48.4% for a collective lay-member leadership to avoid factionalism and high-profile leadership battles in the party’s first two years.
- This weekend at the ACC in Liverpool, Your Party members voted to adopt a collective lay-member leadership for the party's first two years, announced at the founding conference.
- Faced with factional rows and expulsions, delegates rejected a single-leader option pitching Jeremy Corbyn against Zarah Sultana amid longstanding infighting and a boycott.
- The approved model installs ordinary members on an executive committee and a non-MP collective chair will head it, while the ruling committee approves outside party memberships.
- Corbyn's supporters described the vote as a setback, and Sultana welcomed the outcome, saying `this party will be led by its members, not MPs`, while delegates at the conference cheered.
- The vote marks a notable break from Westminster leader-centred system norms as pollsters warn it could siphon votes from Labour; advocates note similar collective models exist in trade unions and left-wing parties in Europe and Latin America.
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Corbyn's new left-wing party opts for collective leadership
A new left-wing political party co-founded by veteran British socialist Jeremy Corbyn narrowly voted to be led by its members rather than an individual leader, it announced on Sunday.
·Rochester, United States
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