Zarah Sultana calls for monarchy to be abolished - as she blasts 'parasite' Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

The former MP said: "The same people who run Britain want you to believe that every refugee is a rapist while they grab £12 million of taxpayers' money to protect a parasite called Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor."

She added: "What a sick society we live in, where our political and media class bend over backwards for the royal family, including Prince Andrew, close friends with notorious paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

"That's our money that provided him housing, that's our money that defended him in court, that's our money that put food on his table. Well, not any more.

"We shouldn't just abolish Andrew's titles. We should abolish the monarchy itself."

It comes following a row over the expulsion of a number of members on the eve of the conference on the grounds they were also members of the Socialist Workers Party.

Earlier today, the new party's founding conference voted to be led by its members, instead of an individual leader.

The former senior royal has since been disgraced following his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and allegations by the late Virginia Giuffre that he sexually assaulted her when she was a teenager.

Andrew denies the accusation. He gave up his royal titles, including the Duke of York, in October.

In the same month, the King initiated "a formal process" to remove Andrew's style, titles and honours.

Sultana backed collective leadership after her preference for a co-leadership model was not put to members for a vote.

She said: "I have fought for maximum member democracy since day one. Seeing members choose collective leadership is truly exciting.

"Together, we're building a new socialist party - radically democratic and powered by a mass movement.

"This party will be led by its members, not MPs. This is only the beginning."

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Sultana insisted that Your Party's decision to adopt a "collective leadership" model was "a win" for members.

She told the party's founding conference: "Some will say that the decision to adopt the collective leadership model is a win for me.

"It is not. It is your win. It is you, the members who have won."

If Your Party does not succeed, Britain will be taken over by "fascism" and people from ethnic minorities will be "imprisoned in tents", Zarah Sultana has said.

The MP told the party's founding conference: "If we don't win this global fight, decay will give way to fascism and people who look like me will be imprisoned in tents and deported to war zones while everyone gets poorer except for the hedge fund managers who donate to Labour, the Conservatives and Reform.

"But if we win, if we win, we will hand over a world renewed for future generations."