The Your Party committee election was chaos. Why break the habit of a lifetime? | John Crace

Start as you mean to go on. Your Party has had a fair few ups and downs in its short lifespan. Some might call it chaos. Its two most prominent members, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, seem barely able to stand being in the same room as each other. Allegations of financial misconduct over membership fees and donations

Labour, Green party and Reform make final pitch to voters in Gorton and Denton – as it happened

Grassroots Left, the Your Party faction supporting Zara Sultana, has issued a statement following the leadership team elections won by the rival The Many slate, which backs Jeremy Corbyn. It says:double quotation markOur party is strongest when members have real power: over policy, finances, selections, and decision-making – through transparent, accountable structures. All Grassroots Left members will push for this on the CEC. We will push to make sure the branches are recognised immediately, fully supported and that members are put at the heart of the party.Your Party must now work together to become a party of and for the whole left – with no more witch-hunts or stitch-ups

Your Party under Corbyn to work with Greens on ‘coordinated left-flank offensive’

A Jeremy Corbyn-led Your Party will work with the Green party and others to push for a “coordinated left-flank offensive” against Reform and Labour, the Guardian understands.After winning a comprehensive victory to become the de facto leader of the leftwing startup party on Thursday, Corbyn will seek to rebuild bridges with pro-Gaza communities “alienated” by his rival Zarah Sultana, sources close to Corbyn said.Corbyn will become Your Party’s parliamentary leader, after an election in which Sultana was also voted on to the party’s leadership committee under its collective leadership model. Corbyn-backed candidates took 14 of the 24 available places on the party’s central executive committee (CEC). Sultana-backed candidates took seven of the seats and three went to independents

British-Danish couple say new UK passport rules may separate them from children

A British man and a Danish woman fear they will be separated from their young children in Copenhagen airport because of new border control rules on British dual nationals.James Scrivens and his wife, Sara, who live in Wales, were visiting relatives in Norway and Denmark during the school holidays, and learned about the new Home Office rules only while they were abroad.Under the rules, dual nationals risk being denied boarding if they do not present a British passport, current or expired, or a “certificate of entitlement”, costing £589, attached to the passport of their second nationality, to prove their right to enter the UK.On Thursday the migration minister Mike Tapp dismissed as “absurd” claims that the government had failed to properly communicate the new rules.Scrivens is hoping the airline will show clemency when they turn up in Copenhagen on Friday, but says if they don’t, their children may have to stay with their grandparents while at least one parent returns home to apply for their first British passports

Sarwar gambles on break with Starmer as Labour support slumps

“People look at Holyrood and think: ‘Lets give them all a bloody nose’,” says Alex, a betting shop manager. Speaking in a focus group of people who voted Labour at the 2024 general election, Alex captured the downbeat mood of a cohort bitterly disappointed with the Labour government’s early performance, frustrated by the record of the Scottish National party and wearied by what they described as “scandal after scandal” polluting public life.Organised by the public opinion researchers More in Common, the discussion took place last week in Glasgow’s southside, where the Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, grew up and still lives with his family.With two months to go until the Scottish parliament elections, these are the voters Sarwar believes he can re-energise. Their dissatisfaction with Westminster lay behind his calculated decision a fortnight ago to call for Keir Starmer to stand aside, as polls consistently show Scottish Labour, a once buoyant party, trailing in third place behind John Swinney’s SNP and Reform UK

Home Office denies ‘absurd’ criticism over rule change that may leave dual nationals stranded

The Home Office has dismissed as “absurd” claims that it failed to properly communicate new border rules that left some British dual nationals at risk of being prevented from boarding flights to the UK.During a heated session in parliament on Wednesday, the Home Office minister Mike Tapp suggested that media coverage in the Guardian and BBC reflected the department’s efforts to publicise the changes.The Labour backbencher Kerry McCarthy described how two of her constituents feared being stranded on their honeymoon because of the new requirements, which came into force on Wednesday.Under the changes, British dual nationals must present a valid or expired British passport, or a £589 certificate of entitlement, to prove their right of abode before boarding a plane, ferry or train to the UK.“They don’t know if they can actually get back into the UK from [their] honeymoon,” McCarthy said