Joe Fortune
Joe Fortune is the Co-operative Party’s Parliamentary Officer, managing a series of strategic political relationships with elected representatives in Westminster.
Outside of his work with the Co-operative Party, Joe is an Executive Committee member of SERA and has held a number of Constituency Labour Party positions including General Election agent, campaigns officer and Branch Labour Party chair. He is currently a shop steward and a member of Unite the Union. He previously worked in Public Affairs for The Waterfront Partnership and Freshwater Public Affairs where he specialised in transport policy. Joe also spent time as Parliamentary Researcher for Gwyneth Dunwoody MP and an intern for Libby Davies MP, an NDP Member of the Canadian Parliament.
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- Lack of positive measures for co-ops in Queen’s Speech (10 May 2012)Parliamentary Officer Joe Fortune considers yesterday’s Queen’s Speech but sees little good news for co-operatives. Following the local election results, the Coalition Government briefed that they were ready to re-launch their partnership for power. The subsequent Queen’s Speech was to act as the clarion call for the Government’s priorities for the coming legislative term. The fifteen [...]
- Our MPs working for a fairer economy (8 Feb 2012)Parliamentary Officer Joe Fortune outlines the work Co-operative MPs are doing in Parliament to make our economy fairer. The Co-operative Party Parliamentary Group has always sought to provide the movement a range of activity in Westminster, whether it is promoting co-operative legislation, promoting the ideas of the movement and scrutinising proposals to ensure that the co-operative angle is [...]
- Seema Malhotra elected as 29th Co-operative Member of Parliament (19 Dec 2011)The Co-operative Party has reacted with delight to the news that Seema Malhotra has been elected to Parliament for Feltham & Heston in the by-election called following the death of Alan Keen MP. Seema will be the 29th Labour & Co-operative Member of Parliament. Seema Malhotra MP said: ‘Having been a member of the Co-operative [...]
- Transport cuts being made with no long-term strategy, says National Audit Office (14 Dec 2011)Following our rail event with Maria Eagle MP last week, Joe Fortune reports on the National Audit Office's report on the Department for Transport stating that the massive cuts lack strategy and may benefit rail companies at the expense of passengers.
- The People’s Rail (2 Sep 2011)Parliamentary Officer Joe Fortune, also transport coordinator for SERA, the Labour Environment Campaign, writes for Progress on the mutual options for the railways. As the Labour party seeks to develop a policy platform which will both stands up to peer scrutiny and capture the electorate’s imagination the Cooperative party and movement has much to add. [...]
- The co-operative week in Westminster (16 Sep 2011)Parliamentary Officer Joe Fortune rounds up the latest from Parliament with the work of Co-operative Parliamentarians. This regular column will briefly round up some of the important or noteworthy pieces of Parliamentary activity and business for co-operators each week. It will highlight the work being done by Co-operative Party MPs and co-operators in Westminster. Of [...]
