Overview
- The two-day gathering in Liverpool will decide a permanent name and whether to adopt a single leader or a collective leadership.
- Zarah Sultana stayed outside the hall on Saturday after some of her supporters were barred, and a spokesperson condemned a “witch hunt.”
- Jeremy Corbyn urged unity before several thousand attendees and described plans for a “new democratic socialist party.”
- Corbyn says the project has roughly 50,000 members, yet a YouGov survey finds 12% would consider voting for it compared with 29% for the Greens.
- The party pitches itself to disillusioned Labour voters and as a counter to the far right, but two of the four initial independent MPs have already walked away.