VOTING has started in the election for the leadership of Your Party, the new left party launched by feuding leaders Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana.

The party’s 60,000 members – or those of them registered to vote – will choose a 24-person central executive committee, which the party’s founding conference last year determined should be its collective leadership.

Corbyn and Sultana are backing rival slates in the election, with candidate endorsements by around 11,000 members showing they are pretty evenly matched ahead of voting.

Ms Sultana is calling for the election of Mr Corbyn in the public officeholders’ section of the executive, but the former Labour leader has not reciprocated.

Mr Corbyn secured most endorsements in that section, with Ms Sultana placing second. The party’s two other MPs, Ayoub Khan and Shockat Adam, are also seeking election.

The Grassroots Left slate, backed by Ms Sultana, is championing member democracy for the troubled party. Mr Corbyn’s For the Many slate is calling for the party to “get back on track” as a broad-based organisation.