{"id":22948,"date":"2025-09-21T21:01:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=22948"},"modified":"2025-09-21T21:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:01:51","slug":"zarah-sultana-to-drop-legal-threat-over-feud-with-jeremy-corbyn-zarah-sultana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=22948","title":{"rendered":"Zarah Sultana to drop legal threat over feud with Jeremy Corbyn | Zarah Sultana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Zarah Sultana has said she will call off legal action announced as part of a bitter feud at the top of her fledgling party with Jeremy Corbyn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The MP acknowledged on Sunday that people felt \u201cdemoralised\u201d after the row over her push for members to sign up to Your Party, the political outfit she established with Corbyn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Sultana, who had claimed she faced a \u201csexist boys\u2019 club\u201d, said she was \u201cdetermined to reconcile\u201d and was in talks with Corbyn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cFor the sake of the party, and as an act of good faith, I will not be pursuing legal proceedings despite the baseless and unsubstantiated allegations against me,\u201d she wrote in a statement posted on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI know many people are feeling demoralised \u2013 I share that feeling. We find ourselves in a regrettable situation, but my motivation has always been to ensure the collective strength of our movement, put members first and build the genuinely democratic conference and socialist party we so urgently need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI am determined to reconcile and move forward. I am engaged in ongoing discussions with Jeremy, for whom, like all socialists of my generation, I have nothing but respect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On Friday Sultana said she had instructed \u201cspecialist defamation lawyers\u201d after she was \u201cthe subject of a number of false and defamatory statements\u201d about her launch of the membership system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It came after a message encouraging supporters of the outfit to sign up was disowned as an \u201cunauthorised email\u201d by Corbyn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Sultana said she took the step because she had been \u201csidelined\u201d and \u201ceffectively frozen out\u201d by Corbyn and fellow independent MPs Ayoub Khan, Adnan Hussain, Iqbal Mohamed and Shockat Adam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Coventry South MP said: \u201cUnfortunately I have been subjected to what can only be described as a sexist boys\u2019 club: I have been treated appallingly and excluded completely.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zarah Sultana has said she will call off legal action announced as part of a bitter feud at the top of her fledgling party with Jeremy Corbyn. The MP acknowledged on Sunday that people felt \u201cdemoralised\u201d after the row over her push for members to sign up to Your Party, the political outfit she established<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2644,4136,12539,2643,324,2648,1162,2647],"class_list":{"0":"post-22948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-corbyn","9":"tag-drop","10":"tag-feud","11":"tag-jeremy","12":"tag-legal","13":"tag-sultana","14":"tag-threat","15":"tag-zarah"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}