Jeremy Corbyn's new hard-left party should call itself the "Nigel Farage Assistance Group", ex-Labour leader Lord Kinnock has claimed. Lord Kinnock, who saw off the hard-left in the early stages of New Labour's revamp in the 1980s,

The former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn announced on Friday he was in talks to start a new political party because Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government had "refused to deliver the change" that voters expected during its first year in office.

A former Scottish Labour MSP claimed "people need an alternative to the establishment parties who have failed us for years".

Jeremy Corbyn is to set up a new left-wing party alongside a former Labour MP. Zarah Sultana, who lost the Labour whip a year ago and currently sits in the Commons as an independent, announced the move on X.

High profile left winger Zarah Sultana has quit Labour and vowed to launch a new political party with Jeremy Corbyn. That, however, seems to have come as news to him. In a social media post, the former Labour leader congratulated Sultana on her "principled decision" to leave and said he was "delighted that she will help us build a real alternative".

Not since Pulp and the Pyramid Stage were united in perfect harmony in 1995 has the Glasto crowd been this excited about a new partnership.