>>2578432>What for? Afaik when the party was just in the embryonic stage of Corbyn, his close circle of advisors (most notably his former chief of staff Karie Murphy, wife of Len Mccluskey, and speechwriter James Schneider, whose wife is Starmer's publicist lol) the independent pro-palestine MPs and other left figures like Andrew Feinstein and Salma Yaqoob, there were a lot of high level discussions about what kind of party it should be or even if it should be a party. Originally the discussions were mostly about whether it should be loose community independents alliance type deal or a more centralised party which eventually seemed to win out, despite Corbyn favouring the latter. When Zarah was invited in as she was preparing to ditch Labour, the question turned to leadership arrangements and there was apparently a zoom meeting vote for whether there should be a single leader or co-leaders with Corbyn apparently offering Zarah that he'd be leader for a year or two then hand over to her, while others like Andrew Feinstein apparently favourer co-leadership and called for a vote which was won by the co-leader idea. Corbyn abstained and apparently asked others to abstain in this vote and was privately upset it took place. Following this the original organiser group was purged of everyone who voted for co-leadership and they formed their own group, this was the point where presumably to preclude a split Zarah went public with the party announcement, claiming she and Corbyn would be co-leaders. Corbyn was mad which is why he refused to say anything about it for a few days but ultimately gave in and made up with her publicly.
The tensions were still there though and the two seperate organising groups continued to work basically independently, each getting their own database of signup contacts and donations.
At this point the more political stuff starts popping up with Zarah representing the younger and more left-wing section, being both more militant on palestine, social progressivism and socialism, while the Corbyn wing more concilliatory, seen as more pandering to the landlord/small business owner independent MPs and their social conservative and anti-socialist views. Corbyn is pretty weak and dithering by all accounts, hates confrontations and just seethes privately when things don't go his way, so the conflict was mostly articulated between Zarah and the most outspokenly reationary independent MP Adnan Hussain trading potshots on social media and promising two different visions of the party. With the already existing split in the organising group, Zarah is increasingly frozen out of meetings and decision making, hard to say what the content of conversations at this time was between them.
At some point Zarah starts privately reaching out to groups on the left intimating that the as of yet unannounced founding process for the new party will not be democratic and they will not have an opportunity to get their views across so they should start agitating for what the party should look like, how the conference should be organised, etc.
This culminates in Zarah making her most daring move of trying to secure data and money for her and Feinstein's faction by launching the party membership portal herself without consulting Corbyn and gain leverage over the Corbyn's faction. This is shut down but not before making the news and getting some 10k+ signups making up a substantial sum of member fees.
Zarah clearly hoped Corbyn would accept the fait accompli again but this time he didn't, though it has been claimed the response was actually put out by Karie Murphy without Corbyn's approval as he'd checked out, and Zarah was almost expelled and legal proceedings were launched. After some intense negotiation and severe fallout things were somewhat smoothed over again, Corbyn's faction launched their own hastily put together membership portal and announced how the process running up to conference would look. Zarah stayed in but the feinstein group effectively resigned any role and handed things to her. She seems to have been passing the money over to Corbyn bit by bit so as to remain needed but they were barely on speaking terms at this point.
With the conference announced the left started organising around it and how they could influence the constitution of the party, Zarah started courting them and appearing at various meetings advocating more left-wing positions, quoting Marx and Lenin, and talking about 'maximum member democracy'.
The left-wing groups started getting momentum at all the various meetings and assemblies, probably helped by both the drama and the new Green leader drawing most prospective members away, the 800k who signed up onto the newsletter at the party announcement ended up being barely 50k on the second member portal.
The Corbyn/Murphy clique have been increasingly paranoid and clearly used the feedback from the assemblies around the country to basically identify which topics they need to lock down so conference attendees don't get to have a say on them, the most controversial has ended up being the ban on dual membership which was consistently an unpopular proposal in the proposed constitution, but has been limited to a choice between a blanket ban and a whitelist of permitted orgs which might as well be the same thing, this together with the final version of the proposals changing the options for leadership from 'single leader vs co-leaders' to 'single leader vs collective leadership' has also pushed Sultana further left as her hopes of being leader are effectively dashed anyway, she could try running against Corbyn but likely lose and is no longer going to be the appointed successor, or rally the far left who want to depose the conservative corbyn/murphy clique to her side by endorsing their demands like open factions and collective leadership, and just be the 'parliametary spokesperson' non-leader leader.
tl;dr: she might have sincere marxist views and is revealing her powerlevel or is just burning things to the ground because she gambled on Corbyn being a pushover one too many times in a personal powergrab