YOUR PARTY co-founder Zarah Sultana argued that the left should be explicitly socialist as she spoke alongside Green Party leader Zack Polanski at a public event on Thursday night.

The independent MP for Coventry South has hinted at an electoral pact with the Greens after launching the new left-wing party with Jeremy Corbyn in July.

Speaking at the Keep Our NHS Public panel event in London, she welcomed calls for a wealth tax but added that the Green Party-backed policy was “not enough to deal with the sheer levels of inequality and the decimation of our public services, and so it’s important for those of us on the left to articulate our politics, which are socialist politics, and when we’re talking about democratising every workplace, every community … every aspect of life.”

The former Labour MP said that Britain’s financial system should be taken into “public control that directs investment to healthcare, homes and green jobs instead of arms, speculation — and we need to explain that.

“In the sixth richest country on Earth … there is no justification for anyone who lives in this country not to have the essentials of a decent life,” she argued.

Ms Sultana said that Labour ministers from from ethnic minorities, like those in the last Tory government, “do not fight for our class, they fight for millionaires.

Giving the example of the Home Secretary, she added: “And kinfolk aren’t always kinfolk… Shabana Mahmood, in particular, is pulling away the ladder that migrant families like hers, like mine have benefited from and it’s absolutely disgusting.”

Mr Polanski told the meeting: “[Labour’s] is exactly the same as Conservative austerity. It’s no better just because we’ve changed the colour of the rosette.

“We know that [Chancellor] Rachel Reeves will on Wednesday probably stand up at the dispatch box [to set out the Budget]  with a sad face, as she creates more and more cuts.

“The number one thing we need to do is change people’s material living conditions … make sure they have food on their tables, heat in their homes and wealth and power is redistributed.”

The NHS in Crisis: Migrants Not To Blame event also heard from left MP Diane Abbott, NHS medics from overseas, care workers, anti-racist activists and union reps from Unite, Unison and the National Education Union.