LONDON, England: A former British Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) has said that she will set up a new party with former party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Zarah Sultana – who had the Labour whip suspended last year – said she was resigning from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s party and would “co-lead the founding of a new party” with Corbyn.
In a statement posted on X, Sultana, who represents Coventry South, said that the project would also involve “other independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country”.
She said that “Westminster is broken but the real crisis is deeper” and the “two-party system offers nothing but managed decline and broken promises”.
“A year ago, I was suspended by the Labour Party for voting to abolish the two-child benefit cap and lift 400,000 children out of poverty. I’d do it again,” she added.
“I voted against scrapping winter fuel payments for pensioners. I’d do it again. Now, the Government wants to make disabled people suffer; they just can’t decide how much.”
She urged people “to join us”.
Sultana was one of seven MPs who had the Labour whip suspended last summer when they supported an amendment to the King’s Speech which related to the two-child benefit cap.
Four of the seven had the whip restored earlier this year, but Sultana was not among them. – BERNAMA-PA MEDIA/dpa