Public Office Holders
Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn is the MP for Islington North, former leader of the Labour Party and founder of the Peace and Justice Project. He is a lifelong campaigner on human rights issues including anti-racism, anti-imperialism, and LGBT+ rights. He campaigns against nuclear weapons and champions the environment and peace.
Laura Smith
Laura Smith is a trade unionist, community organiser, former teacher, councillor and political activist who served as the MP for Crewe and Nantwich and a shadow minister under Jeremy Corbyn. A fierce fighter for fairness and against oppression, she works to reconnect with those who have lost hope and seeks to build a vibrant, democratic, inclusive party.
Ayoub Khan
Ayoub Khan MP was elected as an independent for Birmingham Perry Barr in 2024, winning the seat from Starmer’s Labour. Last year he led the campaign to have Maccabi Tel Aviv fans barred from attending their match with Aston Villa in his constituency. He is the only Birmingham MP to stand with the striking bin workers.
Shockat Adam
Shockat Adam is the MP for Leicester South, elected in 2024 after a grassroots campaign that unseated Jonathan Ashworth. As well as campaigning against cuts in his community, in parliament he has proposed a private members bill to recognise the State of Palestine, has campaigned against the two-child benefit cap and disability cuts, and for wealth taxes.
East Midlands
Louise Regan
Louise Regan is a teacher in Nottingham. Standing for the CEC in a personal capacity, outside Your Party she serves as the National Chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. A prominent trade unionist, she has held senior national positions. She is involved in numerous community campaigns building from the grassroots of our movement.
Riaz Khan
Riaz Khan is an activist, author and lecturer from Leicester. Deeply involved in the pro-Palestine mobilisation and community activism against the far right in the city, he believes Your Party should be shaped by grassroots voices. As a trustee for Help the Homeless Leicester, he works to support some of the most vulnerable people in society.
West Midlands
Sue Moffat
Sue Moffat is a community organiser, cultural practitioner, and activist who declined an OBE because solidarity matters more than status. Her work encompasses political education through culture, working with marginalised communities including genocide survivors and people displaced by war. She is a charity chair and trustee and member of Unite and Acorn.
Fadel Takrouri
Fadel Takrouri is an organiser who served as Labour’s West Midlands regional director under Jeremy Corbyn and has managed numerous local and parliamentary election campaigns. He founded a tenant-owned and democratically-run housing association. He wants to help build a party that serves the many and protects the minorities.
North West
Mohammed Azam
Mohammed Azam is a trade unionist, anti-racist campaigner and former councillor from Oldham. He served as Shop Steward and Convener in Unite, campaigned in Stop the War, and led the successful Unite to Stop the BNP campaign. He helps lead community and faith organisations, strengthening grassroots networks and empowering local voices.
Dawn Aspinall
Dawn Aspinall is a long-time grassroots activist from Southport who was instrumental in founding the Southport Community Independent Party. She is known locally for both her community campaigning and as a champion of human rights across the globe, including through anti-arms and pro-Palestine campaigns. She believes ordinary must step into politics if we want change.
North East
Cath Davis
Cath Davis is a trade unionist, a socialist, and a former councillor. She represents low paid workers on Unison’s National Executive Committee and was a Labour councillor until 2023, when she resigned from the party in disgust at Keir Starmer’s authoritarian leadership. She is a WASPI woman and campaigns for pension compensation.
Hannah Hawkins
Hannah Hawkins is a community organiser who has started multiple community and charity projects. As a working class woman, she knows what it means to be governed without a voice, and as a mother currently navigating the SEND system with her young son she brings first-hand insight into how leadership decisions create real consequences for families, carers and disabled people.
London
Noor Jahan Begum
Noor Jahan Begum is an independent councillor from Redbridge. She stood in Ilford South in the 2024 general election, finishing second and slashing Labour’s majority. A leading force behind Redbridge Independents, she is passionate about building a new, principled left alternative rooted in local communities.
Tahir Mirza
Tahir Mirza is a community organiser and former independent parliamentary candidate, coming second in East Ham in 2024. He twice resigned from Labour, first over the Iraq War, then over Keir Starmer’s suspension of Jeremy Corbyn. Labour’s treatment of members in Newham led to Tahir being featured in Al Jazeera’s The Labour Files.
East of England
Jo Rust
Jo Rust is a long-standing grassroots and trade union campaigner well known in the East of England for her activism. She is a serving independent borough councillor, having previously represented Labour, for which she was a three-time parliamentary candidate. She has been a trade union organiser for both Unite and Unison and is committed to making Your Party a success.
Michael Mulquin
Michael Mulquin is local community champion who has spent the last 30 years working in not-for-profits supporting community groups, both in Britain and across the world. He is committed to combating oppression in all its forms. His work involves extending the use of technology, including community broadband.
South West
Jenn Forbes
Jennifer Forbes is an experienced trade unionist in the CWU and UCU and a former BT Engineer who likes repairing things. She now works in trade union education and volunteers on VAWG projects. Having worked on zero-hours contracts and rented privately for decades she knows that our class depends on tackling inequality. In 2019 she stood for parliament in Truro and Falmouth.
Terry Deans
Terry Deans is a socialist, a community campaigner, and a coalition builder. As a Royal Navy veteran, having never been politically active before, he was inspired by Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership and voted in a General Election for the first time in 2017. Since then he has twice stood in local elections - but against Labour under Keir Starmer
South East
Cassi Bellingham
Cassandra Bellingham is a community campaigner, trade unionist and former councillor. She believes in building change from the ground up, campaigning on human rights and the environment and advocating for marginalised communities, including defeating proposed Public Space Protection Orders legislation. She is a healthcare professional and Unite workplace rep in the NHS.
Chelley Ryan
Chelley Ryan is a carer to her disabled daughter and granddaughter. Her politics are rooted in lived experience, including life with late-diagnosed ADHD, and struggles to secure adequate SEND provision for her granddaughter, but ultimately are driven by her belief in a fairer world for all, regardless of background. She has been an anti-austerity activist since 2015.
Yorkshire &
The Humber
Monique Mosley
Monique Mosley is a fresh produce worker and trade unionist in Yorkshire, where she has lived for more than 20 years since migrating to the UK. She is a Unite convenor and sits on the union’s regional executive, and is currently running for the national executive. She is a passionate campaigner for women's rights in the workplace and beyond.
Ismail Uddin
Ismail Uddin is a 21-year-old independent district councillor in Bradford, elected at 19 without party backing. A youth leader and community activist, he has led youth provision, cost-of-living, and Palestine solidarity campaigns, building grassroots power, winning local change, and enhancing political participation among marginalised communities and young people.
Wales
Maria Donnellan
Maria Donnellan (formerly Carroll) is a nurse and trade unionist who successfully sued the Mail on Sunday for defamation after being smeared. Known for defending purged Labour members, she has also spent her career defending her colleagues, rising from workplace rep to regional secretary in her union. She believes decisions about Cymru must be made by Cymru, for Cymru.