Your Party conference in chaos as Zarah Sultana decries ‘toxic culture’

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The inaugural Your Party conference has descended into chaos as Zarah Sultana decried its “toxic culture”, despite Jeremy Corbyn’s plea for unity.Ms Sultana said she would not enter the nascent left-wing party’s conference centre in Liverpool on Saturday in protest at a “witch hunt”, after one of her supporters, Kingston councillor James Giles, was understood to have been denied entry.

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00:00All members welcome, more the merrier.

00:03I've got it off, I can't buy it anymore.

00:18Is everyone in?

00:24Thank you so much.

00:26Cheers.

00:27I'm disappointed to see on the morning of our founding conference,

00:37people who have travelled from all over the country,

00:40spent a lot of money on their train fare, on hotels,

00:44on being able to participate in this conference,

00:47being told that they have been expelled.

00:50That is a culture that is reminiscent of the Labour Party,

00:55how there were witch hunts on the eve of conference,

00:58how members were treated with contempt.

01:01I refuse to be pushed out,

01:03but we need to establish the party,

01:05have democracy at the very heart of it.

01:09And they are...

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