UK Politics

An independent alliance MP involved in the steering of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s Your Party has announced he is leaving the project. Blackburn MP Adnan Hussain’s resignation comes after Novara Media asked him to comment on allegations that he had been saying behind closed doors that he doesn’t want to become a Your Party member.

In his resignation letter on 14 November, Hussain said he would be “stepping away from the steering group of Your Party”, citing a “toxic, exclusionary and deeply disheartening” environment and calling out how “particularly Muslim men” within the steering process have been treated with “dismissive attitudes” and “veiled prejudice”.

His letter also describes a “broader pattern of clique-like behavior and gatekeeping across sections of the movement” and a “culture surrounding the party… dominated by persistent infighting, factional competition and a struggle for power, position and influence rather than a shared commitment to the common good”.

A source close to the matter told Novara Media earlier today that Hussain and Iqbal Mohamed, MP for Dewsbury and Batley, were saying behind closed doors that they didn’t even want to join the nascent party because some of their base doesn’t want to be associated with the left.

Less than three hours after Novara Media reached out to Hussain to get his side of the story, the Blackburn MP announced he was quitting Your Party.