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

<p>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</p><p>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.</p><p>In the end, the main announcement <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/30/your-party-members-vote-to-make-name-permanent-at-tense-first-conference">proved somewhat underwhelming</a> – with the party sticking with the bound-to-get-confusing moniker Your Party. But the decision to have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/30/your-party-to-have-collective-leadership-zarah-sultana-jeremy-corbyn">a form of collective leadership</a>, rather than face what threatened to be a bitter contest between Corbyn and Sultana for the top job, may prove ultimately more consequential. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/29/corbyn-and-sultana-at-odds-over-your-party-leadership-as-conference-opens">Sultana’s refusal to attend on Saturday</a>, in solidarity with delegates expelled over links to other parties, suggested the in-fighting isn’t over.</p><p><em><strong>Politics </strong></em>| Labour’s economic plan will take years to deliver in full, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/30/labours-economic-plan-will-take-years-to-deliver-keir-starmer-says">Keir Starmer has said</a> as he tries to regain the narrative after a turbulent response to last week’s budget. In an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/30/labour-economic-renewal-budget-left-right-economy">article for the Guardian</a>, the prime minister hit back at his political opponents, insisting the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, was right to impose £26bn worth of tax rises.</p><p><em><strong>Bangladesh</strong></em> | A Bangladesh court has sentenced MP and former minister <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/01/bangladesh-court-sentences-uk-mp-tulip-siddiq-to-two-years-prison-in-absentia">Tulip Siddiq to two years in jail</a>, 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.</p><p><em><strong>Ukraine </strong></em>| Ukrainian negotiators have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/30/ukrainian-and-us-officials-talks-florida-russia-war">met US officials in Florida</a> 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.</p><p><em><strong>Israel </strong></em>| Benjamin Netanyahu has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/30/benjamin-netanyahu-asks-israel-president-isaac-herzog-for-pardon-corruption-case">asked Israel’s president for a pardon</a> for bribery and fraud charges and an end to a five-year corruption trial, arguing that it would be in the “national interest”.</p><p><em><strong>Extreme weather </strong></em>| Sri Lanka and Indonesia have deployed military personnel to help victims of devastating flooding that has killed nearly 1,000 people <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/01/asia-flood-sri-lanka-indonesia-deploy-military">across four countries in Asia</a> in recent days.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/01/monday-briefing-what-did-we-learn-at-your-partys-first-conference">Continue reading...</a>

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