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Sultana drops legal threat over feud with Jeremy Corbyn
MP
‘determined to reconcile’ with former Labour leader after fledgling party’s
membership sign-up row
Nadeem
Badshah
Sun 21
Sep 2025 21.23 BST
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Sultana has said she will call off legal action after a public row with Jeremy
Corbyn over the fledgling party they were to co-lead.
The
Coventry South MP acknowledged people felt “demoralised” after the quarrel over
her push for members to sign up to Your Party, the political outfit she
established with the former Labour leader.
Sultana,
who had claimed she faced a “sexist boys’ club”, said she was “determined to
reconcile” and was in talks with Corbyn.
“For the
sake of the party, and as an act of good faith, I will not be pursuing legal
proceedings despite the baseless and unsubstantiated allegations against me,”
she wrote in a statement posted on X on Sunday.
“I know
many people are feeling demoralised – I share that feeling. We find ourselves
in a regrettable situation, but my motivation has always been to ensure the
collective strength of our movement, put members first and build the genuinely
democratic conference and socialist party we so urgently need.
“I am
determined to reconcile and move forward. I am engaged in ongoing discussions
with Jeremy, for whom, like all socialists of my generation, I have nothing but
respect.”
On
Friday, Sultana said she had instructed “specialist defamation lawyers” after
she was “the subject of a number of false and defamatory statements” about her
launch of a paid membership system.
It came
after a message encouraging supporters of the outfit to sign up was disowned as
an “unauthorised email” by Corbyn.
Sultana
said she had taken the step because she had been “sidelined” and “effectively
frozen out” by the former Labour leader and fellow independent MPs Ayoub Khan,
Adnan Hussain, Iqbal Mohamed and Shockat Adam.
The MP
added: “Unfortunately I have been subjected to what can only be described as a
sexist boys’ club: I have been treated appallingly and excluded completely.”
Corbyn
had previously urged people not to use the “supposed membership portal” and
said legal advice was being taken over its launch.
The row
is the latest in a series of disagreements between the two MPs over the
direction of the party, which is yet to hold an annual conference or decide on
an official name.
Sultana
announced its launch in July before Corbyn appeared ready to confirm it.
But the
party appeared to be building momentum, with Sultana claiming more than 750,000
supporters had signed up.
Sultana,
who was suspended last year alongside six other Labour MPs for voting to scrap
the two-child benefit cap, announced in July she was quitting Labour to set up
a new political party.
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