Co-operative Party

04/09/2026

Amol Rajan knows the BBC from the inside. He was its first Media Editor and presented Today for 5 years.

Now he is making the case for a BBC owned by its licence payers.

That is a co-operative idea. Every share and vote would belong to the members who fund and use it.

03/09/2026

Civic pride grows where people have a say over the place they live in, and co-operative ownership is what gives them that say.

In the Commons, Co-operative MP Andrew Pakes put that case to Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary Angela Rayner, and she backed it.

PS: Angela Rayner is correct, Andy Burnham IS the first Co-operative and Labour Prime Minister! 🐝

03/09/2026

Over the past two years, we've been delivering incredible wins through government, including in energy, housing, and finance.

Now Parliament is back and with a new Prime Minister, we're ready to do so much more.

Catch up with the first episode in our new YouTube series.

Two years into this Government, forty-three Labour and Co-operative...

02/09/2026

The commitment to double the size of the co-operative and mutual economy means handing power directly to people in their own communities.

Labour and Co-operative MP [Andrew Pakes] asked the Government today how Whitehall will deliver on that ambition.

01/09/2026

For decades, the earnings of Britain's high streets have travelled upwards and outwards, into the accounts of people who have never walked down them.

When the people who use a place own it, the value it creates stays where it was made.

Andy Burnham addressed the Commons today.

27/08/2026

The BBC is cutting £500 million and one in ten jobs, with staff on Newsnight expecting their programme to go.

A TV licence costs £180 a year and carries no vote in how the BBC is run.

The Charter Review should make licence fee payers members, with a real stake and a say.

26/08/2026

We've spent two years asking what communities are already doing about the challenges this country faces.

The answer has filled six reports: on hope, energy, growth, housing, sport and the places that hold us together. Welcome to Community Britain.

24/08/2026

This is what hope looks like when communities own it.

Community Britain is already here, and it works. Our job is to give it the power and the backing it deserves, and that is exactly what we are doing.

Read the stories at party.coop/community

21/08/2026

Mutuals are how we can revive Britain’s high streets.

Place-based businesses reinvest where their members live, and doubling the size of the co-operative sector would put that model on high streets across the country.

20/08/2026

🥳 Congratulations to everyone receiving their GCSE and BTEC results today!

The co-operative movement has a vital role to play in delivering future focused reform at every level of education – creating a system which delivers the best for children, parents and workers.