Jeremy Corbyn and four other pro-Palestinian MPs elected in July’s election on Monday formed a group called the Independent Alliance in a bid to exercise more influence in the Commons.With five members, the new faction will have the same parliamentary strength as Reform UK and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), giving it equal sway in terms of getting called by the Speaker to ask questions of the government.

As well as the former Labour leader representing Islington North, it comprises Shockat Adam (who beat Jonathan Ashworth in Leicester South), Ayoub Khan (Birmingham Perry Barr), Adnan Hussain (Blackburn), and Iqbal Mohamed (Dewsbury and Batley). 

British Bangladeshi Apsana Begum has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Poplar and Limehouse since 2019. Apsana is also known as a very close ally of Jeremy Corbyn. But she didn't join with him.

Apsana Begum was also expelled from the Labour Party in July for voting against party decisions in Parliament along with six other Labour MPs. Close political followers of Corbyn Apsana Begum and Zarah Sultana may join with Jeremy Corbyn; it was speculation. Apsana, daughter of late Monir Uddin Ahmed, former councillor of Tower Hamlets and Adi resident of Sunamganj's Jagannathpur upazila, rose in the politics of the Labour Party and was nominated for the first time in 2019 by holding the hand of former party leader Jeremy Corbyn. After Jeremy Sir Keir Sturmer was now elected as the party leader, Apsana was naturally in a bit of trouble with the old leader's close associates.British Bangladeshi MP Apsana is among the most vocal Labour Party MPs on behalf of the people of Palestine. Going beyond the party policy, compared to the other three MPs of Bangladeshi origin, she repeatedly spoke directly for the oppressed people of Palestine. But Apsana at the moment considering putting all the discussions behind and hoping to return to the party as an individual instead of joining Jeremy. 

There will be no whipping procedure or official leadership structure for the organisation, unlike Reform and the DUP. However, the lawmakers asked others to join them in a united statement. "We were elected by our constituents to offer hope in a Parliament of despair," they declared, criticising Labour for its intention to keep up arms sales to Israel and to eliminate the winter fuel subsidy for all seniors.The Independent Alliance went on, "Millions of people need their voices to be heard. They are calling for a true alternative to poverty, inequality, and war. "We feel that as a group we can continue doing this with more effectiveness. As individuals, we were elected by our constituents to voice their concerns in Parliament on these topics, and more.

“The more MPs who are prepared to stand up for these principles, the better. Our door is always open to other MPs who believe in a more equal and peaceful world.”

Tory leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch said she was “far more worried” about the emergence of “sectarian Islamist politics” under the independent MPs in the Commons than by the breakthrough of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.Speaking at the launch of her leadership campaign, the shadow minister attacked “alien politics that has no place here”, adding: “It’s the sort of politics we need to defeat, and defeat quickly.”