A WIN discussion November 2025. See it HERE. After years of pressure from below and months of wrangles at the top, the founding conference was finally held last weekend of Britain’s new left party: “Your Party”. The conference was devoted not to formulating policies or an action programme, but exclusively to constitutional and procedural matters: the party’s name; its leadership structure; whether or not to admit members of existing left groupings. Its delegates were not democratically elected representatives of its nationwide proto-branches, but individual members randomly selected by lottery (“sortitioned”). Yet on all contentious questions the most radical options were endorsed, often in defiance of the platform: a rejection of bans and proscriptions; a collective and accountable leadership; an explicitly socialist identity. Will the new party fizzle out and end in disappointment and acrimony? Or are we really witnessing the birth of a new mass socialist party? If so, its impact could reach far beyond the shores of Britain.
To help find an answer, at our meeting this week we heard reports back from two of the several regular WIN participants who were delegates at the conference: Ian Drummond of Edinburgh, Scotland and Nora Everitt of Barnsley, Yorkshire.