Jeremy Corbyn issued a call for unity as he opened the inaugural Your Party conference, acknowledging there had been “mistakes” in the party’s foundation.

Speaking at the start of a two-day conference in Liverpool, the former Labour leader said the nascent left-wing party had “a unique opportunity” to found “a socialist party of mass appeal” against a “triopoly of political thinking in Parliament”.

But the party’s foundation has been overshadowed by internal conflict with a dispute between former Labour MPs Mr Corbyn and Zarah Sultana earlier this year, resulting in a botched membership launch and threats of legal action.

Two other Independent MPs, Adnan Hussain and Iqbal Mohamed, withdrew from the party’s founding process, in part due to infighting.

And the conference has already seen

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