Your Party ‘over’ in Scotland as leadership committee quits

The entire leadership of Your Party in Scotland has quit and declared the party is “over”.

The left-wing vehicle was set up by English MPs Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn and attracted a mass of Scottish sign-ups, including prominent members of the Scottish Greens.

Figures from Labour and Alba also made the move.

But Your Party did not stand a single candidate for the Scottish Parliament election and now its Interim Scottish Executive Committee (Isec) has quit.

The 12-strong panel was made up of volunteers who oversaw party functions in Scotland, including the founding conference held in Dundee recently.

The walk-out is blamed on “constant contempt shown towards members and the organisation north of the border” by its authorities in England.

All 12 committee members have now pledged to form a new party. Ex-Scottish Greens activist Niall Christie, the only Scottish representative on Your Party’s Central Executive Committee, has also left that post with immediate effect.

Christie said: “It has become clear the party has run out of road. This is in no small part down to the consistent disrespect shown to Scotland and Scottish members, with decisions about us being made without our input, and on our behalf.”

In a statement, the resigning Isec members said they had undertaken “significant work” to ensure candidates for the Holyrood contest and run internal elections to install a democratically-elected Scottish executive committee.

However, it said these efforts had been “blocked by those in control of the party”.

And they said the Scottish operation had been “haemorrhaging members” and “has now collapsed”.

The group sought to increase Scottish representation on the committee, which includes 16 places for English regions.

The walk-out follows the decision by Your Party, which has been dogged by internal division, to remove thousands of members affiliated with other socialist organisations, including the Scottish Socialist Party.

Resigning Isec members said they had been unable to contact members in Scotland since the party’s creation in 2025, and proposals for greater powers for the Scottish operation had been ignored.

In a statement, they said: “As a result of this consistent denial of autonomy for Scotland, and a willingness by the UK leadership to sideline an entire nation by withholding funding and mailing lists and refusing to engage, we have, after careful thought and consideration, taken the collective decision to resign our positions on Isec, having found ourselves completely blocked when we attempted to carry out the clear mandate set for us by members from across Scotland.

“No serious attempt to unite the left can be done through purges of socialists or by disregarding entire nations and their representatives. It is clear that these are fatal blows to the Your Party project from which it cannot recover.  

“Despite this generational fumble of the left in Britain, the need for a new party on the left in Scotland couldn’t be more urgent, and it is our clear intention to continue working towards this. We call on others who share our vision to join us in doing so over the coming weeks and months, as the reality of a rising far-right and its representatives joining our national parliament set in. Simply put, the best time for change has passed, but the next best time is now. In Scotland, we intend to continue building that change, but to do so outwith the constraints of the deeply flawed and dying Your Party.”

Rebel Green councillors in Glasgow – Dan Hutchison, Seonad Hoy and Leodhas Massie – were amongst those to join Your Party, alongside Christie and Ellie Gomersall, who unsuccessfully challenged Patrick Harvie for top place on the Greens’ list for Glasgow candidates.

Former Labour MEP Hugh Kerr, who had latterly been a member of Alba, was also amongst those to join.

Your Party said it is “fully committed to the autonomy of the party in Scotland”.

A spokesperson said: “We thank Niall and members of the volunteer interim committee for their contribution to support members in Scotland at an early stage of the Party’s development.

“We understand these members disagreed with the vote taken by Scottish members not to stand candidates for the upcoming Holyrood elections. That is their right.

“Following our executive committee’s decision earlier this month, Your Party has already begun the work of establishing a Scottish Nations Working Group through sortition, ensuring a representative body drawn from across the whole membership in Scotland.

“This approach is about strengthening participation, transparency and long-term stability. It creates the conditions for meaningful member engagement, the development of Scottish branch structures, and the preparation of elections for a permanent Scottish Executive Committee – the democratic structures that Scottish members voted for and deserve.

“Every decision about Your Party in Scotland will be taken by members in Scotland.

“We understand there are differing views during a period of transition. Our responsibility is to put in place clear, fair and workable structures that serve all members in Scotland, and we remain committed to doing so.”