The Co-operative Party

Amidst Labour successes across England, Scotland and Wales, co-operative candidates have been elected around the country, strengthening existing Labour councils with a co-op voice and helping to win new councils for Labour. One of the highlights of the election was seeing two Labour & Co-operative district councillors elected in David Cameron’s Oxfordshire constituency. Duncan Enright [...]

When our special guest, Baroness Dean, launched the Plymouth Labour manifesto for us a month or so ago there was much excitement about plans to turn Plymouth City Council into a Co-operative Council. Championed by our friends in Lambeth and elsewhere we felt it was time that Plymouth, no stranger to co-operation, should embrace this [...]

Great news from Liverpool, one of the first members of the Co-operative Councils Network, where the Council Leader and Labour’s candidate for Mayor Joe Anderson announced £1 million for a city-wide credit union to help people avoid using loan sharks. In his Joe for Liverpool manifesto, Cllr Anderson pledges that “I will set up a [...]

Labour & Co-operative councillor Timothy Godfrey, Secretary of the London Co-operative Party, contrasts the possibilities for library services offered by co-operative solutions and the cuts and closures threatened by Croydon’s Conservatives In Croydon, local Labour & Co-operative Councillors have proposed to the ruling Conservative Council that instead of privatising the library service to a large [...]

Councillor Tudor Evans, Leader of the Labour Group on Plymouth City Council, looks ahead to the launch of their manifesto for the May elections later today, a manifesto with co-operatives at its heart. Plymouth has a proud tradition in the Co-operative movement. Everyone knows someone who is a member of the Co-operative Retail Society. Plymouth’s [...]