YOUR PARTY has formally elected Jeremy Corbyn as its parliamentary leader as the left MP vowed to take the fight to PM Sir Keir Starmer and Reform leader Nigel Farage.

Mr Corbyn secured 14 votes out of 24 on the party’s newly elected central executive at the weekend with no-one opposing.

Former Labour parliamentary candidate Jenn Forbes was chosen as the party’s chair, with ex-Labour MP for Crewe Laura Smith as vice-chair.

Mr Corbyn said: “From now on, everything we do must serve the people we seek to represent. That means campaigning fearlessly against poverty, racism and war. 

“That means building power everywhere: in our workplaces, in our communities and in Parliament. That means taking the fight to Starmer and Farage with a message of hope.

“We have a precious opportunity to unite our movement around a bold alternative — and I’m looking forward to campaigning alongside all members to build the mass, community-based, socialist party this country needs.”

Mr Corbyn’s election seals the victory of his supporters in the factional struggle with the party’s co-founder Zarah Sultana which had dominated Your Party since its birth last summer.

It is unclear, however, how his new role will fit in with his membership of the Independent Alliance, two of the four other members of which have left Your Party, or with Ms Sultana, who is a Your Party MP but estranged from the Independent Alliance.

In the forthcoming local elections the party will for the most part be backing local independent progressive campaigns, along with the party’s own candidates in areas where it is genuinely competitive.