"She had left Britain's ruling party only in July, pledging to "co-lead" a new left-wing party with Jeremy Corbyn, a former Labour leader who was expelled last year. More than 700,000 Britons have signed up to the mailing list of the provisionally titled Your Party. Among the party's goals are redistributing wealth, taxing the very rich, making rail and energy publicly owned, standing up to fossil-fuel giants, and ending arms sales to Israel."
"Sultana was perhaps too quick to declare Labour's demise, but she had reasons to forecast it. Although he won a landslide victory last year, the Labour leader Keir Starmer has already disappointed many supporters. In polls, he has fallen behind the right-wing Reform UK of Nigel Farage. As progressives have done with center-left leaders elsewhere, many would-be supporters have deemed him to be insufficiently pro-Palestine. Additionally, he has cut welfare benefits and centralized control of the party."
Zarah Sultana left Labour in July and pledged to co-lead a new left-wing party with Jeremy Corbyn, who was expelled last year. More than 700,000 Britons have signed up to the party's provisional mailing list. The party's goals include redistributing wealth, taxing the very rich, renationalizing rail and energy, confronting fossil-fuel companies, and ending arms sales to Israel. Sultana declared "Labour is dead" to a crowd in Newcastle. Keir Starmer won a landslide but has disappointed many supporters, falling in polls and being seen as insufficiently pro-Palestine while cutting welfare and centralizing party control. Dozens of councillors have left Labour.
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