Activism / Labour Has Only Itself to Blame for the UK’s New Left-Wing Party Starmer’s rightward turn and austerity agenda fracture Labour, as Corbyn and Sultana rally disillusioned voters behind a new left alternative. Earlier this summer, former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn—who recently led a two-day inquiry into the United Kingdom’s role in what experts have declared a genocide—seized on Gaza as a key issue in British politics to offer increasingly disenchanted Labour voters a new home in the form of a left-wing political party. For now it’s called “Your Party” until a vote can be held on a name, and will be cofounded with former Labour member of Parliament Zarah Sultana and four other pro-Palestinian independent MPs. Ever since Starmer took Labour’s reins in 2020, it’s become increasingly clear that left-leaning MPs are no longer welcome in the 125-year-old party. More worrying to NHS advocates is Streeting’s focus on the private health sector’s spending over directly funding the public service.