Disillusioned left-wing voters began to light up again over the summer when Jeremy Corbyn announced he was setting up a new party.
The former Labour leader said he would be teaming up with fellow ex-Labour and now independent MP Zarah Sultana , and promised to champion everything the current government has – according to its leftwing critics – been too inactive over.
From scrapping the two-child benefit cap to taking on “the rich and powerful”, it seemed very much like it was all of the ideas Keir Starmer has refused to look at since being elected.
Interest skyrocketed, and hundreds of thousands flocked to sign up to the Your Party (formal name yet to follow).
That all seems like a distant memory now, as the two MPs at the party’s forefront had a very public falling out over