Finally. Ten months after Your Party (YP) was first announced and six months after its founding conference, this ‘new’ Jeremy Corbyn-led party will be holding its first official branch formation meeting, The Left Lane has learned.
The date is 6 June 2026 and the location is Newport on the Isle of Wight. The party’s leaders claim this meeting will be the first of approximately 300 branch formation sessions to be organised in Wales, Scotland and England in the upcoming months.
The downward trajectory of the Isle of Wight’s proto branch has been even more extreme than most. As reported in an August 2025 issue of The Left Lane (the former one), 67 activists attended the initial YP meeting on the island on 14 August. At the most recent meeting of the same group, five people attended. The rest have joined the Greens or dropped out of organised left politics.
One key local organiser, Darren Galpin, wrote a heartfelt piece in The Left Lane on 5 May 2026 on why he had quit YP. “There are countless examples of undemocratic, opaque, unaccountable practices of the central organising group in Your Party that contributed to me cancelling my membership subscription in April,” he said. “The decision taken by The Many faction to use their numerical majority on the party’s central executive committee to monopolise all the key officer roles, alongside the appointment of a paid but anonymous party secretariat, signalled the beginning of the end of my participation in this project,” said Galpin, who is part of the team that works on The Left Lane.
There are evidently 113 YP members who live on the Isle of Wight. Cassi Bellingham, a member of Corbyn’s The Many slate and the YP’s membership secretary, refuses to disclose – even to YP’s central executive committee – how many members YP has, in total, across the three nations or how many members YP has lost or gained since the Liverpool founding conference. That the first official branch formation meeting would be held in Newport was not even discussed at the CEC meeting of 10 May 2026.
Some local people are questioning why branch officers for the Isle of Wight branch are to be elected online before the 6 June meeting is even held. “Why can’t we meet first and get to know one another a bit?” one activist said in an interview yesterday evening.
The founding meeting will be held at 5.30pm on Saturday 6 June at the Quay Arts Centre in Newport. It will be a hybrid session. That is the same day that that the Connections conference will be held in Sheffield (see here for details). It will be the first member-led national event and is expected to be a rather more critical session and probe why 800,000 YP supporters in September 2025 has plummeted to about 50,000 or fewer today.
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