Exclusive: Your Party CEC votes no confidence but must ask leadership to respect vote

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The Your Party executive committee (CEC) no-confidence vote exclusively revealed by Skwawkbox last week took place on Sunday. The specially-arranged CEC meeting, to hold no-confidence votes in three key officials, was fraught and lasted almost three-and-a-half hours. Yet it ended without a clear conclusion, forcing members to ask party leaders to respect a clear majority vote that just failed to reach the required threshold. The issue was a vote of no confidence in three figures blamed for the suspension of three well-known CEC members for attending a socialist conference. A number of members left the meeting rather than participate, but the…

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Leaked email reveals Canary knew about Carns leadership desires in February

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All this talk of Al Carns reminded us of an email leaked to the Canary news desk in February, which is published for the first time today. It’s a copy of an email from a (possibly fictional and satirical, although we can’t be sure) Number 10 staffer to the head of the Metropolitan police. Now that Starmer is gone, the contents are starting to look a bit eerily prophetic… From: tonygordstein@number10.gov.uk                                                                 Wed 25/02/2026 17:01 To: sirmarkrowley@met.police.uk Hey Mark, I don’t have any requests this time. I’m just bored here and thought I’d give you an update on the gossip going round…

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