Jeremy Corbyn faced a blow on Sunday as his new party voted in favour of collective leadership at their inaugural conference.

As part of the party’s first conference in Liverpool, members were able to vote on party issues, including the party name and leadership style.

This gave members the option to have a single elected leader - in this case, Jeremy Corbyn - or to have a collective leadership model which would put a committee of members in charge.

The results came in, and they were close, but ultimately, members voted for a committee to run the party.

The new model was supported by 51.6% of over 9,000 members who voted, marking a setback for the former Labour leader.

Zarah Sultana, who had been vocal in her support for co-leadership, had been blocked from consideration by other pa

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