Don't look back in anger, we're just like Liam and Noel Gallagher, co-leader of Jeremy Corbyn's new left-wing party tells supporters after weeks of bitter infighting
The co-leader of Jeremy Corbyn's new political party has likened herself and the ageing hard Left MP to the Gallagher brothers as she tried to draw a line under a summer of bitter infighting.
Zarah Sultana said that if Noel and Liam Gallagher could mend their relationship to get Oasis back on stage for the first time in 15 years she and Mr Corbyn 'can do it' as well.
In one of their first appearances on stage together since they launched Your Party, she insisted that 'the show is back on the road' after a row which led her to label its set-up a 'sexist boys club'.
A public spat erupted between former Labour leader Mr Corbyn and Ms Sultana last month after she promoted a system to take payments for their new political outfit, which he disowned as an 'unauthorised email'.
This prompted the former Labour MP to threaten legal action, though she later relented and vowed to 'reconcile' with Mr Corbyn.
Speaking at the left wing The World Transformed festival in Manchester today, Coventry South MP Ms Sultana referenced the successful tour put together by Oasis this summer.
It ended a feud between the Gallagher brothers that lasted 15 years.
Ms Sultana told today's event: 'Obviously you've all seen what's happened over the past few weeks but I'm here to tell you the show is back on the road.
'I know that I'm in Manchester so I have to reference Liam and Noel Gallagher. If they can do it, of course me and Jeremy can.'
Zarah Sultana said that if Noel and Liam Gallagher could mend their relationship to get Oasis back on stage for the first time in 15 years she and Mr Corbyn 'can do it' as well
Speaking at the left wing The World Transformed festival in Manchester today, Coventry South MP Ms Sultana referenced the successful tour put together by Oasis this summer
Mr Corbyn used the event to accuse Sir Keir Starmer of 'conceding ground' to 'the far right' and said left-wing parties must instead 'confront' them.
The MP told the The World Transformed conference in Manchester: 'It's a very dangerous game, very, very dangerous game indeed, because once you start conceding ground to these people, you end up putting through brutal migration laws, brutal attacks on human rights, and you end up using the kind of language that Keir Starmer used, that I first heard when Enoch Powell enunciated that in 1968 in Birmingham.
'Don't concede ground to the racists and the far right. It doesn't end well… You have to confront them.'
Ahead of the Your Party conference next month Corbyn and Sultana will 'examine the project’s aims and spark debate about the role of parties in transformative change,' according to organisers.
On Saturday, Sultana and Green leader Zack Polanski will also take part in a talk about a hard left pact.
At an event called Uniting to Win: Red/Green Alliances & New Popular Fronts, they will discuss 'what role a ‘popular front’ can play in beating the far right and delivering the change we want and need.'
