Zarah Sultana has introduced that she is forming a brand new UK political occasion with Jeremy Corbyn after resigning from Labour.
Sultana, who has served as MP for Coventry South since 2019, confirmed that she was quitting the Labour Social gathering after 14 years final night time (July 3).
It comes after she was stripped of the Labour whip final summer season when she voted to scrap the two-child profit cap. Sultana can also be a member of the Socialist Marketing campaign Group, and was its chairperson between 2020 to 2025.
“In the present day, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Social gathering,” she started her letter. “Jeremy Corbyn and I’ll co-lead the founding of a brand new occasion, with different Impartial MPs, campaigners and activists throughout the nation.”
Suntana continued: “Westminster is damaged however the true disaster is deeper. Simply 50 households now personal extra wealth than half the UK inhabitants. Poverty is rising, inequality is obscene and the two-party system presents nothing however managed decline and damaged guarantees.
“A yr in the past, I used to be suspended by the Labour Social gathering for voting to abolish the two-child profit cap and raise 400,000 kids out of poverty. I’d do it once more. I voted in opposition to scrapping winter gasoline funds for pensioners. I’d do it once more.
“Now, the federal government needs to make disabled folks endure; they only can’t resolve how a lot.”
She added: “In the meantime, a billionaire-backed grifter [Nigel Farage] is main the polls [with Reform UK], as a result of Labour has fully failed to enhance folks’s lives. And throughout the political institution, from Farage to Starmer, they smear folks of conscience making an attempt to cease a genocide in Gaza as terrorists.
“However the fact is evident: this authorities is an energetic participant in genocide. And the British folks oppose it. We aren’t going to take this anymore.
“We’re not an island of strangers; we’re an island that’s struggling. We want properties and lives we will truly afford, not rip-off payments we pay each month to a tiny elite bathing in money. We want our cash spent on public companies, not endlessly wars.
“In 2029, the selection shall be stark: socialism or barbarism. Billionaires have already got three events preventing for them. It’s time the remainder of us had one. Be a part of us. The time is now.”
In the present day, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Social gathering.
Jeremy Corbyn and I’ll co-lead the founding of a brand new occasion, with different Impartial MPs, campaigners and activists throughout the nation.
Be a part of us. The time is now.
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— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) July 3, 2025
Since being suspended final yr, Suntana has sat within the Commons as an impartial. Nevertheless, she remained a member of the Labour Social gathering regardless of this.
Throughout an interview on ITV’s Peston, former Labour Chief Corbyn defined that he and fellow pro-Gaza independents would “come collectively” and stated “there shall be another” to the principle events.
“Should you provide weapons to someone that’s accused of acts of genocide, because the Israeli authorities is, then you definitely your self turn into complicit in these acts as properly,” he continued.
Corbyn, who’s impartial, and has been MP for Islington North since 1983, stated that this different can be based mostly on “peace quite than conflict”. He urged: “Let’s have a look at the humanity of the state of affairs.”
He served as Labour Chief between 2015 and 2020. In 2019, he misplaced the election to Boris Johnson’s Conservative Social gathering. Corbyn was succeeded as Labour Chief by present Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
He stays a member of the Socialist Marketing campaign Group, together with Sultana.
Earlier this week, Sultana spoke out in opposition to Palestine Motion being proscribed as a terror organisation, earlier than MPs voted for it to be put into regulation (through Sky Information).
She argued that to proscribe it was “a deliberate distortion of the regulation to relax dissent, criminalise solidarity and suppress the reality”. The MP declared: “We’re all Palestine Motion.”
The draft order to amend the Terrorism Act 2000 and proscribe the group, laid in Parliament by Residence Secretary Yvette Cooper, handed the Commons on Wednesday (July 2) by 385 votes to 26.
Corbyn has additionally shared a assertion from the Impartial Alliance, saying that it “unequivocally oppose[s] the proscription of Palestine Motion”.
Should you provide weapons to someone that’s accused of acts of genocide, then you definitely your self turn into complicit in these acts as properly.
Right here’s why I’m calling for an impartial public inquiry into the UK’s position in one of many best crimes of our time. pic.twitter.com/rSYkMwh63g
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) July 3, 2025
In Could, Corbyn made an look at London’s Huge Awake Pageant, the place he expressed his assist for “folks in a determined state of affairs in Gaza”.
He additionally informed the viewers that he had tabled a invoice in Parliament, calling for an inquiry into the British army’s position in Israeli operations in Gaza. Elsewhere within the speech, he addressed the blockade of support and meals to Gaza: “They’re being intentionally starved to loss of life.”
Earlier this yr, Corbyn introduced a brand new dwell music marketing campaign in a bid to push the federal government to assist defend the UK’s music venues.