01/12/2025
We were fortunate enough to attend the Your Party conference in Liverpool over the weekend, and I left feeling genuinely inspired and uplifted. Despite a few expected ups and downs, members should be proud of what we accomplished. It marked the historic launch of a major new political party — the first in many years — and Your Party now stands as a political movement ready to take on the challenges ahead.
The members voted for “collective membership”. The new member-led executive will take the big decisions around the party’s management and strategy, with a chair, deputy chair and spokesperson helping to provide public leadership.
Democratic socialism was clearly at the forefront throughout the conference. With its commitment to being an explicitly anti-austerity, anti-oppression party rooted in local communities, there is growing confidence that Your Party will continue to expand. It appears well-positioned to challenge both a weakened Labour and the far-right Reform in future local and national elections. A Salford Labour councillor has today joined Your Party resigning from the Labour Party. The first in Greater Manchester.