Zarah Sultana

29/11/2025 15 min

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Episode Synopsis

The Coventry MP who left the Labour party and joined Jeremy Corbyn's new left-wing ‘Your Party'. Zarah Sultana's husband and friends tell us how her upbringing shaped her politics and reveal her questionable taste in music. 'I think she would describe her taste as no taste', claims her husband Craig Lloyd. She was born in Birmingham to political parents who were both members of the Labour party. Her father even took her on a Labour party delegation to the occupied West Bank when she was a student, an important trip that inspired her to join those campaigning for a free Palestine and she's continued campaigning ever since. Her political career hasn't always been smooth sailing, leaving the Labour party over a row about lifting the two-child benefit cap. However her friends say she is driven by something deeper than her own career aims, she's trying to reshape British politics.Guests:
Craig Lloyd, husband
Sienna Rodgers, deputy editor of parliament's The House magazine
Ian Byrne, Labour MP for Liverpool West Derby
Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Labour MP for Clapham and Brixton Hill
Georgie Robertson, friend and activist
Barnaby Raine, friend and activist Production team:
Presenter: Mark Coles
Producers: Sally Abrahams, Mhairi MacKenzie, Phoebe Keane and Tom Farmer
Production co-ordinators: Maria Ogundele
Sound: Gareth Jones
Editor: Justine Lang Credits:
Married At First Sight, CPL productions
Ladybarn Primary School, Facebook

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