Muslim Labour MP Resigns to Start New, ‘Pro-Palestine’ Party
4th July 2025
MP Zarah Sultana has quit Labour, aiming to start a new political party alongside her former leader Jeremy Corbyn. The very online Member for Coventry South made the announcement on her X, formerly Twitter, account on Thursday, July 3rd.
The exit came close to the first anniversary of the Starmer government gaining a parliamentary majority on a low electoral turnout and, according to Sultana, after she spent 14 years in Labour—some of it sitting as an independent, due to her previously breaking ranks with the Westminster party line.
Sultana claims that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and shouted “we are all Palestine Action” amid parliamentary moves to proscribe the group.
The YouTube vlogger Sargon of Akkad calls her an ‘Islamo-communist’.