Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty ImagesSources close to Jeremy Corbyn have warned that Your Party will only survive if his slate wins the party’s leadership election on 26 February. The New Statesman can exclusively reveal that if Corbyn’s slate does clinch victory over Zarah Sultana’s slate in elections to Your Party’s central executive committee, Corbyn will become the party’s parliamentary leader. In an interview with Laura Kuenssberg in December, Sultana said she would run to become the party’s parliamentary spokesperson. However, Corbyn’s slate – The Many – believe that he is best placed to reunite Your Party’s electoral coalition and have therefore decided to elect him parliamentary leader should the slate win the CEC elections on 26 February. The upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election will be held on 26 February, the same day as the CEC elections.