The dispute between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Suldann on the future of a left-wing party to challenge the labor of both camps in public donations.
Sulana offered to transfer £600,000 from a company the founders of the party set up earlier this year, which Corbyn allies accused of “playing political games” with supporters’ money “with supporters’ money” with political money.
The latest row comes after months of acrimonious fighting between the two former Labor MPs who are jostling to become a new force in the populist left. The path for power is likely to come to a head in the new year when the party holds a formal leadership contest.
The latest centers in a row of hundreds of thousands of donations and payments received by the operations of Mou Ltd, a company set up earlier this year.
Your Party officials sought a sum of about £800,000 from the operation of Mou, even threatening to take legal action against the company in this regard.
However, Sultana recently took sole control of the operation of Mou and on Monday offered to return £ 600,000, the dispute should continue if there are legal or administrative costs. That offer however was immediately rejected by your Party officials.
A spokesman for Sulana said: “Zarah is working to transfer all the funds and data held in the expenses, the MOUS debts of your party. As legally responsible for ensuring your party.
They added: “The first £200,000 is scheduled to be sent on 12 November. All remaining funds will be transferred once the company’s costs, expenses and assets are fully settled.”
Your party declined to comment, but officials are understood to be in the process of rejecting Suldane’s offer. A spokesman for Corbyn also declined to comment.
Party officials say Sultana must pay back the full £850,000, which they say was collected by the Mou operation in the early weeks of the Party’s formation. But they do not want the Party to part with a separate pot of money – believed to be around £500,000 – collected after Sulna launched an unauthorized membership portal on 18 September.
Others close to Corbyn believe Sultana is trying to hide the money to help fight a month-long presidency. However, Sulana’s allies say that some people who donated in the early days of the event should be kept refunded.
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The row comes as your Party advisers plan their first national conference in Liverpool at the end of the month, where members will have to agree a draft constitution and elect a 21-member executive.
Sulana’s allies said he wanted to make sure some money was transferred to the party before that event to avoid scaling it due to a lack of funds.
The dispute between the two has continued since Sulana announced in July that she was resigning from working to set up your party next to Corbyn.
The announcement was met with fury by Corbyn’s supporters, who said the former Labor leader was the only person with a national profile to lead the new car.
However, Sultana’s supporters point to her following among young leftists and success in getting her message to an online audience. His Tiktok following, for example, is now nearly 490,000, compared to Corbyn’s 280,000.