Monday briefing: What did we learn at Your Party’s first conference?

In today’s newsletter: No new name, but a decision to embark on collective leadership means that the factionalism in Your Party is here to stay

Good morning. Over the weekend the new left-wing party being built by Jeremy Corbyn, Zarah Sultana and their supporters held its first conference. It came after months of public in-fighting and factional disputes, and in the wake of two independent MPs quitting the project before it even had a name.

In the end, the main announcement proved somewhat underwhelming – with the party sticking with the bound-to-get-confusing moniker Your Party. But the decision to have a form of collective leadership, rather than face what threatened to be a bitter contest between Corbyn and Sultana for the top job, may prove ultimately more consequential. Sultana’s refusal to attend on Saturday, in solidarity with delegates expelled over links to other parties, suggested the in-fighting isn’t over.

Politics | Labour’s economic plan will take years to deliver in full, Keir Starmer has said as he tries to regain the narrative after a turbulent response to last week’s budget. In an article for the Guardian, the prime minister hit back at his political opponents, insisting the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, was right to impose £26bn worth of tax rises.

Bangladesh | A Bangladesh court has sentenced MP and former minister Tulip Siddiq to two years in jail, in a corruption case involving the alleged illegal allocation of a plot of land. Siddiq has denied the allegations and the trial was conducted in her absence.

Ukraine | Ukrainian negotiators have met US officials in Florida to thrash out details of Washington’s proposed framework to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, as Kyiv faces pressure on military and political fronts.

Israel | Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Israel’s president for a pardon for bribery and fraud charges and an end to a five-year corruption trial, arguing that it would be in the “national interest”.

Extreme weather | Sri Lanka and Indonesia have deployed military personnel to help victims of devastating flooding that has killed nearly 1,000 people across four countries in Asia in recent days.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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