{"id":161281,"date":"2025-11-30T21:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T21:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/161281\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T21:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T21:07:07","slug":"inside-the-wild-launch-of-jeremy-corbyns-your-party-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/161281\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the wild launch of Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s \u2018Your Party\u2019 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the eve of the conference, the former Labour leader \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/labour-suspends-former-leader-jeremy-corbyn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suspended<\/a> from the party by current Prime Minister Keir Starmer over his response to a damning report on antisemitism \u2014 sat in a group meeting at Paul\u2019s Place, a not-for-profit set up to support people bereaved by suicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Corbyn, now 76, has long prized grassroots and community action over the glare of national politics. After the meeting, with attendees encouraged to pick from plates of cheese and crackers, three people, all Your Party members, described Corbyn as the best prime minister we \u201cnever had.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the ACC, others seemed more skeptical. Leaflets were thrust into the hands of conference attendees describing Corbyn\u2019s politics as an \u201cold, cowardly, rotten left-social democratic alliance.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not interested in Jeremy Corbyn or Zarah Sultana,\u201d said attendee Julian. \u201cI\u2019m interested in how policy is made, how legislation is developed to deal with everything from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/grenfell-tower-fire-report-united-kingdom-government-complacent\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grenfell tower murders<\/a> to climate change, whatever it is. And people have to get together and organize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As debates in the main hall continued and energy levels sapped, chairs at times struggled to keep the peace. Debate chair Aghileh Djafari-Marbini was booed when she tried to instill order. \u201cI\u2019m not scared of you,\u201d she said to those trying to shout her down. \u201cAs a child, I used to visit my father in the notorious Evin Prison. I am not scared of you. You do not scare me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s in a name?<\/p>\n<p>One thing that at least was settled at Your Party\u2019s conference was a proper name for the outfit \u2014 although it\u2019s got a distinctly familiar ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, the eve of the conference, the former Labour leader \u2014 suspended from the party by current&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[97052,97053,5471,4410,444,42,24027,5357,43,40,38,41,39,97054],"class_list":{"0":"post-161281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-boris-johnson","9":"tag-claudia-webbe","10":"tag-democracy","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-jeremy-corbyn","15":"tag-keir-starmer","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-top-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topnews","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-zarah-sultana"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}