Your Party to back independent candidates
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/your-party-back-independent-candidates
Jeremy Corbyn (left), Ayoub Khan (centre) and Zarah Sultana on stage as the end of the Your Party founding two day conference at the Liverpool Arena, November 30, 2025YOUR PARTY will back independent community-based socialists in next year’s local elections in England, the new party’s members have agreed.
In a vote taken at the party’s founding conference at the weekend, and by members online, it decided to support “independent socialist candidates of good standing where there is evidence of candidates being engaged in community campaigning and having the support of their local communities or trade unions branches.”
The vote was by 81.5 per cent to 18.5 on a turnout of over 10,000 of Your Party’s 55,000 members. The party will also stand its own candidates.
Members also endorsed an electoral strategy of targeting seats where the party has a reasonable chance of winning, rather than seeking to stand everywhere.
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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/your-party-back-independent-candidates
