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Grassroots Left<\/strong>, the Your Party faction supporting Zara Sultana, has issued a statement following the leadership team elections won by the rival The Many slate, which backs Jeremy Corbyn. It says:<\/p>\n double quotation markOur party is strongest when members have real power: over policy, finances, selections, and decision-making \u2013 through transparent, accountable structures. All Grassroots Left members will push for this on the CEC. We will push to make sure the branches are recognised immediately, fully supported and that members are put at the heart of the party.<\/p>\n Your Party must now work together to become a party of and for the whole left \u2013 with no more witch-hunts or stitch-ups. All those who have been expelled should be reinstated. We now need a culture of mutual respect, open debate, and a shared focus on the real issues facing us: inequality, insecure work, crumbling public services, fascism, and a political establishment that keeps letting working people down.<\/p>\n Grassroots Left will work with all those elected who are committed to rebuilding trust by putting the members first and fighting with the branches for accountable, transparent and democratic structures and strong socialist policies in Your Party.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a010.10 EST<\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Key events<\/p>\n <\/span>Show key events only<\/p>\n Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n For a full list of all the stories covered on the blog today, do scroll through the list of key event headlines near the top of the blog.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/span>Angeliki Stogia, the Labour candidate.<\/span> Photograph: Peter Byrne\/PA<\/span>Hannah Spencer, the Green candidate.<\/span> Photograph: Christopher Thomond\/The Guardian<\/span>Matt Goodwin, the Reform UK candidate<\/span> Photograph: Matt GoodwinShare<\/p>\n These are from Sienna Rodgers<\/strong> from the House Magazine on the Your Party elections.<\/p>\n double quotation markJeremy Corbyn\u2019s \u2018The Many\u2019 slate won 14 seats<\/p>\n Zarah Sultana\u2019s Grassroots Left won 7 seats<\/p>\n Independents won 3 seats<\/p>\n 25,347 Your Party members voted (over 1,000 more than in the 2025 Green party Leadership elections won by Zack Polanski)<\/p>\n double quotation markYP source points out that 20 of the 24 seats on the CEC have been won by women, saying: \u201cSo much for the sexist boys\u2019 club!\u201d<\/p>\n double quotation markUnderstand that now the leadership has been elected Corbyn will officially become a Your Party MP<\/p>\n He is currently listed as an Independent whereas Sultana became a YP MP months ago<\/p>\n Here is Alexandra Topping<\/strong>\u2019s updated story on the results.<\/p>\n And here is an extract.<\/p>\n double quotation markSources close to [Zarah] Sultana said she had no intention of quitting the party despite Corbyn\u2019s victory. \u201cShe will stay and fight,\u201d they said. \u201cShe\u2019ll be fighting with the other seven women that have been elected from Grassroots Left to make sure that the party is as democratic as it can be and to give as much power to the members as \u2018The Many\u2019 will allow.\u201d<\/p>\n The 24-person CEC \u2013 on which 20 women will sit \u2013 will decide who takes the roles of chair, deputy chair, secretary, treasurer, political officer and spokesperson. After months of public spats, rows over money, accusations of sexism and rifts over policy and direction, Your Party is hoping to turn a page on the controversies that have beset it since its launch in July last year.<\/p>\n Following the result former Your Party MP Adnan Hussain said he was \u201cdelighted\u201d at Corbyn\u2019s victory, though he stopped short of saying he would rejoin the party. \u201c\u2018The results clearly demonstrate members\u2019 trust in his leadership and vision for the party, the same vision which inspired me to join the project,\u201d he said. \u201cI wish him the best of luck in putting into action his vision for a mass movement for the many.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n And Zack Polanski<\/strong>, the Green party leader, has tweeted this, promoting his candidate in Gorton and Denton, Hannah Spencer.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Nigel Farage<\/strong>, the Reform UK leader, has been tweeting too about his party\u2019s get out the vote operation in Gorton and Denton.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n A reader asks:<\/p>\n double quotation markIs there a convention by which constituencies containing more than one place are named?<\/p>\n Alphabetically it would be Denton and Gorton being fought today.<\/p>\n On the actual question, I can\u2019t help, I\u2019m afraid \u2013 although I guess it comes down to what sounds most natural to the people who live there. The Gorton bit of the constituency has more people living in it than the Denton bit.<\/p>\n But I do know something about the prevelance of constituency names with the word \u201cand’\u201d in them \u2013 because Philip Cowley<\/strong> has an essay on this subject in his wonderful collection of political columns, The Smallest Room in the House. He has looked at the data and, while in 1950 just 53 constituencies had \u201cand\u201d in the name, by 2019 it was 161, and now it is 250.<\/p>\n And this highlights two features of the way constituency boundaries have been redrawn in the past 80 years.<\/p>\n First, it is because \u201cboundary redistributions in the UK have increasingly come to prioritise creating seats consisting of (roughly) equal electorates over the desire for seats that represent actual communities.\u201d<\/p>\n And, second, it is because there is now more public particiation in the boundary redistribution process. At the last redistribution, the Boundary Commission originally proposed 209 seats with \u201cand\u201d in the title. By the time the consultation process was over, it was up to 250.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Here are some tweets from cabinet ministers campaigning in Gorton and Denton today.<\/p>\n From David Lammy<\/strong>, the deputy PM and justice secretary<\/p>\n Proud to be out knocking doors today for Labour\u2019s brilliant candidate, Angeliki Stogia.<\/p>\n Only Labour can stop Reform. If you\u2019re in Gorton and Denton, vote for unity, hope and local renewal over division and hate \ud83c\udf39 pic.twitter.com\/XSlRLm4y5Z<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 David Lammy (@DavidLammy) February 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n From Bridget Phillipson<\/strong>, the education secretary<\/p>\n Out in Gorton and Denton today campaigning for our great candidate Angeliki Stogia.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a straight choice \u2014 Labour or Reform, hope or fear.<\/p>\n Polls close 10 pm \ud83c\udf39 pic.twitter.com\/7ceTjVmxMd<\/a><\/p>\nAfternoon summary<\/h2>\n