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Electing the new National Youth Committee
The election for the National Youth Committee for 2013-2015 is currently underway, with Co-operative Party Youth candidates standing to be elected as representatives in each region. The National Youth Committee is the executive of Co-operative Party Youth. There is a member elected for each of the English regions and one each for Scotland, Wales and [...]
When is a Co-op not a Co-op? When it’s Cleveland Fire Service
Anna Turley considers the Coalition’s plans to ‘mutualise’ Cleveland Fire Service and asks whether it truly matches up to co-operative principles. When is a Co-op not a Co-op? Answer – when it has no employee engagement, no community support, no democratic accountability and can be sold off to the highest bidder. This is the worrying [...]
Co-operative Party submission to Welsh Commission
The Co-operative Party has submitted written evidence to the Welsh Government’s Co-operatives and Mutuals Commission. Deputy General Secretary Karen Wilkie outlines our case. The Commission posed a number of questions for the movement to respond to – all very pertinent to how the Welsh Government could help co-ops – which it should. What these may [...]
Tell David Cameron to Make Food Fair at the G8 Summit
During Fairtrade Fortnight, the Make Food Fair campaign was launched by the Fairtrade Foundation. Smallholder farmers produce the majority of the world’s food, but they also make up half of the world’s hungriest people. Many rely on co-operatives to help them get their food to market. The G8 summit this June takes place in the [...]
Meg Munn MP: why I am bringing forward the Co-operative Schools Bill
Later today, Labour & Co-operative MP Meg Munn will introduce the Co-operative Schools Bill in Parliament under the 10-minute rule. Here she tells us why. This afternoon, I will rise in the Commons to introduce the Co-operative Schools Bill. It is a landmark in the extraordinary story of co-operative education, a movement that has hugely [...]
Labour & Co-operative County Council candidates are go!
Over 250 Labour & Co-operative candidates are standing in the May County Council elections this year. Co-operative candidates, many of them existing councillors, are standing in every county council area in England with the exception of Warwickshire. With Ed Miliband launching Labour’s campaign with a speech at the East of England Co-op and the ever-growing interest [...]
Meg Munn MP to introduce Co-operative Schools Bill next week
A 10 Minute Rule Bill on Co-operative Schools will be introduced by Meg Munn, Labour & Co-operative MP for Sheffield Heeley, on Wednesday 17 April. The Co-operative Party has been working with the Co-operative College. College Principal Mervyn Wilson has written for the Co-operative News outlining the growth of co-op schools to over 450 schools [...]
Support the Co-operative Schools Bill in Parliament
A 10 Minute Rule Bill on Co-operative Schools will be introduced by Meg Munn, Labour and Co-operative MP for Sheffield Heeley, on Wednesday 17 April. Developed with the Co-operative College, the Bill will call for schools to be able to register themselves as Industrial & Provident Societies and for an amendment to the Education Act [...]
Ed Miliband launches local election campaign with pledge on payday loans
This week Ed Miliband launched Labour’s campaign for May’s county council elections with strong words on legal loansharks and payday lenders. Ed’s speech made a strong reference to the campaign to end legal loansharking and the need to both cap the cost of credit and to give councils powers so that they can stop high [...]
John Biggs selected for Tower Hamlets
London Assembly Member John Biggs has been chosen as the Labour & Co-operative candidate for the elected Mayoralty of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. John, who represents City and East London as a Labour & Co-operative Assembly Member, was endorsed by the London Co-operative Party ahead of his selection by Labour Party members last [...]
