Overview
- Draft guidance removes any co-leader option, with members to decide this weekend between a single leader or a collective Central Executive Committee model.
- If a single-leader structure is chosen, a leadership election is scheduled to conclude by the end of February 2026; under a collective model, the CEC’s chair and deputy chair would lead in the interim.
- Zarah Sultana had argued for co-leadership, but the party says the exclusion is intended to end internal psychodrama rather than embed it.
- Jeremy Corbyn offered an eve‑of‑conference apology for the party’s disorderly launch, acknowledging disappointment and saying he wants to make the project work.
- The conference will also vote on the party’s permanent name as the movement contends with a donations dispute involving roughly £800,000 and recent withdrawals by MPs Iqbal Mohamed and Adnan Hussain.