Sultana says the Labour government is “weak and pathetic” as the party does not have the “political will” to confront the “parasites who own Britain”.She says Your Party is there to dismantle a system that attacks disabled people and demonise people coming to Britain via small boats.Sultana said:We have a weak and pathetic Labour government that is pushed this way and that way with the political winds, because it does not have the political will to confront the parasites who own Britain.We are here to break up a system that humiliates our disabled friends and neighbours and deprives them of the cash that they need, while funnelling an extra 11 billion pounds a year to arms companies.That’s right.

Keir Starmer wants an extra 11 billion pounds on defence every year and all the old parties back it.£350 of our money every second on war.That’s money into the pockets of shareholders for the merchants of death, after two years where our money has funded daily spy flights over the ruins of Gaza, aiding and abetting a genocide.This is a Labour government happy to oppress people abroad and at home.This isn’t a coincidence.

The politicians who attack the disabled in Liverpool and demonise the desperate arriving on small boats, they are the same people who blow up our world with war, occupation and genocide, but we know that the real enemy of the working-class travels by private jet, not migrant dinghy …Ordinary humans suffer everywhere, so the mighty and powerful can sleep in silk sheets in their blood soaked mansions, and as socialists, we stand with the oppressed everywhere, from Sudan to Congo to Palestine.Sultana is met with cheers of ‘Free, Free, Free Palestine’ after saying she is proudly an “anti zionist”.As a reminder, Jeremy Corbyn will close the conference by announcing the result of a ballot on the new party’s formal name, with members choosing between Your Party, Our Party, Popular Alliance and For The Many.We are expecting this to happen at about 4.30pm.

Ben Quinn, a senior reporter for the Guardian, gives his assessment of Sultana’s speech and where Your Party stands on the second day at conference:Divisions in the nascent left-wing party headed, for now, by Jeremy Corbyn and others have been re-ignited at its inaugural conference as Zarah Sultana delivered a blistering attack on what she described as “the expulsions, the bans and censorship” implemented by others in its leadership,The independent MP, who resigned her Labour membership in July, arrived inside the main hall in Liverpool to the sound of ‘Oh Zarah Sultana’ after boycotting the first day of the conference in protest at the expulsion of a number of members of the Socialist Workers Party,In a keynote address to members, she sparked a series of standing ovations from the supporters of what is known, provisionally, as Your Party, calling for the abolition of the monarchy and for former colleagues in the Labour party, including Keir Starmer and David Lammy, to be tried at the Hague over their actions in relation to GazaHowever, while these calls were red meat to the party faithful, the party’s infighting remains an existential threat,Others, including backers of Corbyn, still privately say its hopes of seizing the mantle of leading those to the left of Labour are slim if Sultana and allies from far-left groups are permitted to control its direction,Sultana delivered a moment of contrition in the middle of her speech, addressing what she described as the “hiccups” since Your Party came together.

While she did not explicitly refer to them, those “hiccups” have included rows over funding, membership, the party’s name and even its initial process of launching, which saw her being accused of unilaterally pulling the lever to launch,“Some of that is my fault and for that I am sorry,” said Sultana, who was greeted with polite applause,“But I want you to know that my aim from the very start was for this party to be led by the members and not MPs,”The apology stood in contrast with Sultana’s rage at what she warned was a culture of “backroom deals” as well as the “smears and leaks to the Murdoch press,”Those close to others in the leadership had expected a fiery speech from Sultana, who they said had refused to share it in advance.

Whether they will ultimately regard it as a bridge to unity – or another veiled attack remains to be seen.Sultana went on to praise Zohran Mamdani’s historic win in becoming the first democratic socialist and Muslim of south Asian descent to become New York City’s mayor (elect).She said:The stakes are enormous.The old is dying and if the new cannot be born this will be the time of monsters.Centrist politicians presiding over decline and decay, pushing people’s rage towards the far right.

But from New York, in the very heart of empire, a new politics emerges.Zohran Mamdani, unapologetically socialist, unapologetically Muslim, unapologetically immigrant, built a campaign that proved what is possible when the working class unites people who look different, pray differently and love differently, but all want a life of dignity where people and planet thrive.If we don’t win this global fight, decay will give way to fascism and people who look like me will be imprisoned in tents and deported to war zones while everyone gets poorer except for the hedge fund managers who donate to Labour, the Conservatives and Reform.But if we win, if we win we will handover a world renewed for future generations.Zarah Sultana apologised for “hiccups” in the foundation of Your Party, saying some of it was her “fault”.

She said:You may have noticed that the process of stating up this party has had some hiccups,Some of that is my fault, and for that I am sorry,But I want you to know that my aim from the very start has been to ensure that this party is led by you, the members, and not MPs,She added: “We have to get better at working with each other,We have to ensure that the best cure against any culture of backroom deals is people power and that’s why I’ve been fighting for maximum member democracy.

”As the Guardian’s Whitehall correspondent, Rowena Mason, notes in this story, there have been disagreements between Corbyn and Sultana over how the left-wing party was launched and how money raised from members should be held,Two Independent MPs, Adnan Hussain and Iqbal Mohamed, withdrew from the party’s founding process, in part due to infighting,Sultana says we should abolish the monarchy, saying it was not enough to just abolish the titles of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Britain’s Prince Andrew,“The same people who run Britain want you to believe that every refugee is a rapist while they grab £12m of taxpayers’ money to protect a parasite called Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor,” she said,Sultana added:What a sick society we live in, where our political and media class bend over backwards for the royal family, including Prince Andrew, close friends with notorious paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

That’s our money that provided him housing, that’s our money that defended him in court, that’s our money that put food on his table.Well, not any more.We shouldn’t just abolish Andrew’s titles.We should abolish the monarchy itself.King Charles’s decision to remove his brother’s birthright and dukedom earlier this month followed growing controversy over Mountbatten-Windsor’s links to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including that caused by the posthumous publication of Virginia Giuffre’s memoir.

Giuffre alleged that the former prince had sexually abused her after she was trafficked by Epstein, claims Mountbatten-Windsor has always strenuously denied.Sultana says Britain should sever ties with the “genocidal apartheid state of Israel” over its devastating military assault on Gaza which many legal scholars have said amounts to a genocide.The 1948 UN genocide convention defines genocide as any of five “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group”.The government should expel the ambassador and shut down the Israeli embassy in London, Sultana said, adding that ministers should be standing with the Palestinian people “until every inch of their land is free”.She added:And we must ensure there is a day of reckoning for those who have enabled genocide.

Keir Starmer, David Lammy, Shabana Mahmood, and all responsible are held in the docks of The Hague.Sultana says the Labour government is “weak and pathetic” as the party does not have the “political will” to confront the “parasites who own Britain”.She says Your Party is there to dismantle a system that attacks disabled people and demonise people coming to Britain via small boats.Sultana said:We have a weak and pathetic Labour government that is pushed this way and that way with the political winds, because it does not have the political will to confront the parasites who own Britain.We are here to break up a system that humiliates our disabled friends and neighbours and deprives them of the cash that they need, while funnelling an extra 11 billion pounds a year to arms companies.

That’s right.Keir Starmer wants an extra 11 billion pounds on defence every year and all the old parties back it.£350 of our money every second on war.That’s money into the pockets of shareholders for the merchants of death, after two years where our money has funded daily spy flights over the ruins of Gaza, aiding and abetting a genocide.This is a Labour government happy to oppress people abroad and at home.

This isn’t a coincidence.The politicians who attack the disabled in Liverpool and demonise the desperate arriving on small boats, they are the same people who blow up our world with war, occupation and genocide, but we know that the real enemy of the working-class travels by private jet, not migrant dinghy …Ordinary humans suffer everywhere, so the mighty and powerful can sleep in silk sheets in their blood soaked mansions, and as socialists, we stand with the oppressed everywhere, from Sudan to Congo to Palestine.Sultana is met with cheers of ‘Free, Free, Free Palestine’ after saying she is proudly an “anti zionist”.Sultana addresses why she refused to enter the conference hall on Saturday in solidarity with delegates who were expelled over links to other leftwing parties, which she described as a “witch-hunt”.She said:We have to confront what took place yesterday, the expulsions, the bans, the censorship on conference floor are unacceptable.

It’s undemocratic,It’s an attack on members and this movement,And those decisions were made at the top, not by you,Many of those people expelled found out only after they had arrived in Liverpool, people who had travelled across the country took time off work, booked hotels, spent hundreds of pounds that they could not easily spare, discovered at the door that they had been barred, and the shocking sight of a Muslim woman being manhandled and dragged out of conference is something that should shame any party that claims to stand for equality and justice,These actions come straight out of the labour rights handbook, the same playbook we have all lived through for years, the witch-hunts, the smears, the intimidation, the bullying, the legal threats and the leaks to the Murdoch press.

Let me be absolutely clear, the members will not stand for this,The movement will not stand for this, and I will not stand for this,I did not leave the Labour party,You did not leave the Labour party to create another Labour party …This party must never become a labour 2,0 and that is why we are here to build a new kind of politics, democratic, principled and rooted in the power of the working class.

She says she is honoured to co-found Your Party with Jeremy Corbyn, whom he says she has an “enormous amount of admiration and respect for”.Sultana said Corbyn gave a lot of people “hope” when he became leader of the Labour party in 2015.Sultana says Your Party has more than 55,000 members, making it the largest socialist party in the UK since the 1940s.“We have built something no one in westminster believed was possible, a mass democratic working-class movement,” she said.Zarah Sultana, the MP for Coventry South, is arriving on stage to loud applause from members in the crowd.

Zarah Sultana is expected to make a speech shortly.We will be covering her address to the conference in Liverpool live.