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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 18m

Behind the stories we're told about hate and despair, is the truth we all recognise. A Britain of hope, solidarity, co-operation and pride. Our Interim General Secretary Cait Prowle delivers our Sororal Greetings at Labour Party Conference. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Lo...

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Cait Prowle delivers the Co-operative Party's annual Sororal Greetings to Labour Conference 2026

Our movement is one of radical optimism. party.coop/join

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 20h

“A union of nations that gave trade unions and the co-operative movement to the world.” Our first Labour and Co-operative Prime Minister on the Britain he loves: a country of solidarity, not separation.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 21h

Generations of Labour & Co-operative campaigners have worked to put our shared values into power. Today, for the first time ever, a Labour & Co-operative Prime Minister addresses Labour Party Conference. 🌹🐝

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 23h

We’re stronger when we own things together. Angela Rayner MP on Labour’s commitment to our co-operative movement, and putting more power and ownership in the hands of workers, customers and communities.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 29/09/2026

Could you be the next General Secretary of the Co-operative Party? 🐝 We’ve got big plans for the future, and co-operative values and principles have never been more relevant or more needed. We’re looking for someone to take the Party forward.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 29/09/2026

Good morning from Day 3 of Labour Conference! Today, we’ll hear the first ever Leader’s Speech from a Labour and Co-operative Prime Minister. Come visit us at stand A8, and learn more about our ideas, our policies and standing as a Labour and Co-operative candidate. 🌹🐝

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 28/09/2026

The clean energy transition works best when communities own it. From the Local Power Plan investing in community-owned energy, to billions for communities and local authorities to upgrade homes, Miatta Fahnbulleh is turning that co-operative principle into practice.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 28/09/2026

The first Labour and Co-operative Prime Minister is a significant moment in our movement’s history and its future. Thanks to John Healey for recognising this moment, and we look forward to working with you to grow the co-op sector and boost local growth in every postcode. 🐝

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 28/09/2026

Good morning from Labour Party Conference Day 2 – we kicked off the day with a visit to our stall from Rochdale's very own Paul Waugh MP! 🐝 Rochdale is where our movement started, and we're proud that Paul is the first Co-operative MP to represent the historic seat.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 27/09/2026

Meet our new interim General Secretary, Caitlin Prowle! 🐝 We caught up with Cait to ask her an important question: why should Labour members join the Co-operative Party too?

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 27/09/2026

What’s next for communities policy? This afternoon, we brought a panel together to discuss how communities can have more say over the places they live and the support they need to put their ideas into practice.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 27/09/2026

Imagine if your high street was filled with businesses owned directly by the people who work, shop and live there. Now, we’re helping make that a reality. Chair of the Co-operative Party Jim McMahon MP shares how we’re doing it with a £10m Co-operative Development Fund.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 27/09/2026

What would it take to double the size of the co-operative and mutual sector? At our first conference fringe, we explored how businesses owned by their members can help build a stronger economy, and what needs to happen next.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 27/09/2026

What makes Alex Norris MP proud to be a Labour AND Co-operative MP? 🌹🐝 Come visit us at Stall A8 to how your Co-operative Party pride.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 26/09/2026

🐝 We’ve been pushing for more power and ownership to be put directly into the hands of communities. Now it’s happening. Our Interim General Secretary Caitlin Prowle speaks to the Mirror about plans to back community ownership and grow co-op businesses. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Boost to high streets with new £10million community-owned business fund

EXCLUSIVE: Announced by Communities Secretary Angela Rayner, the fund will help boost organisations that are owned and run by the staff, customers and the communities who use them

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 26/09/2026

🚨 NEW: More community ownership. More co-operatives. High streets that work for the people who live there. From a stronger Community Right to Buy to bringing empty shops back into use, we’re putting more power and ownership into local hands. 🐝

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 25/09/2026

🚨 NEW: The government has announced a £10 million fund to support co-ops and back high streets. The new funding will help local leaders establish co-operative businesses owned by workers and communities, giving local people a real long-term stake in their high streets.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 25/09/2026

Who owns our economy matters. 83% of new co-ops survive five years, versus 38% of UK businesses overall. They’re more likely to be Living Wage accredited and rooted in overlooked places. Co-operatives UK’s new report makes the case for giving more people a stake.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 24/09/2026

What makes your community special in one word? 🐝 Visit Stall A8 at Labour Party Conference from Sunday to add yours to our board and take our quick communities survey. Your words will contribute to a word cloud, and the survey results will feature in our next report.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 22/09/2026

Community-owned pubs have a 99% long-term survival rate. They support local jobs and keep more money in the local economy. Speaking to the BBC, Labour and Co-operative MP Helena Dollimore explains how the Community Right to Buy will help people protect the places they love.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 21/09/2026

Coming to Labour Conference? Join us in Liverpool to talk about the co-operative future of our economy, communities and places. 🐝 Sunday 27th 1pm: Doubling the size of co-ops and mutuals 4pm: What’s next for communities policy? 🐝 Monday 28th 3pm: Pride in Place: what’s next?

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 18/09/2026

On the final morning of Labour Conference, the Co-operative Party's address to delegates is delivered by our Assistant General Secretary Cait Prowle. Wed 30 Sept, 9:35am, Conference Hall party.coop/lab26

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 17/09/2026

Our General Secretary Joe Fortune has given nearly two decades of service to our party and our movement. We are immensely proud he will now serve as General Secretary of our sister party, and we look forward to working closely with him in his new role. Our full statement:

Joe has given nearly two decades of service to the Co-operative Party and the wider co-operative movement. We are immensely proud that he will now serve alongside our first Co-operative Prime Minister as General Secretary of our sister party.

Under Joe’s leadership, the Co-operative Party has reached new highs in membership, influence and electoral representation. Throughout, he has brought the very best of our movement’s values and principles to everything he has done.

He will be immensely missed by our team, but we are delighted that his next chapter will keep him at the heart of our shared movement.

As we approach the centenary of our two parties' historic partnership, we look forward to continuing to work closely together in his new role.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 17/09/2026

Today brings more power to the Local Power Plan, as we charge towards widespread community energy. Miatta Fahnbulleh MP shares the latest step as the Government backs communities across Britain to build and own their clean energy supply. ⚡️

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 17/09/2026

Pride in Place puts money and decisions into neighbourhoods. Join our Labour Conference fringe to hear what communities can own as part of it, with Jim McMahon MP, Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods, Helena Dollimore and Cait Prowle. Mon 28 Sept, 3pm, Event Space 3

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 16/09/2026

Communities own their pubs, their pitches, their energy, and so much more. Our Labour Conference fringe asks what more we can do together, with Minister Florence Eshalomi MP, Nick Plumb of Power to Change, Fin Irwin of intoBodmin and chair Jo PlattMP. Sun 27 Sept, 4pm, Arena Room Aire

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 15/09/2026

Doubling the size of the co-operative and mutual economy is government policy. Join us at our Labour Conference fringe and hear what delivers it, with Lucy Rigby MP, BSA, Co-op Group and Mutuo. Sun 27 Sept, 1pm, Arena Room Wye

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 14/09/2026

Andy Burnham wants to bring fan ownership back to the heart of sport. As reported by Sky News, the Prime Minister is looking to expand support for fan-owned sports clubs. Our latest report set out how fans and communities could have a bigger stake and say.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 11/09/2026

Happy Rosh Hashanah! Shanah Tovah, from all of the Co-operative Party.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 11/09/2026

ICYMI: We launched our new YouTube series, starting with what you might've missed in British politics over the last two years. Watch the first episode today. 🐝

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 10/09/2026

Ticket touts are a result of who gets to own and control live music. As Jayne Kirkham MP put it in Parliament, if live music belonged to the people who watched it and used it, it would be better protected. That means community ownership. That means co-operative ownership. 🎵

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 09/09/2026

We're proud to have co-operators in the Cabinet – from Business, Education, and Justice to Energy Security, Scotland, and the Prime Minister himself. They take into government the case that communities should own the assets, businesses and services they depend on.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 08/09/2026

“The distinctive feature of a successful community organisation is not just that we belong to it but that it belongs to us.” Gordon Brown is right – and that’s what co-operation is all about. People feel connected to their communities when they have a real stake in them.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 07/09/2026

In the North West, co-operators came together last weekend to make the case for a Community Britain: communities with more power, more ownership, and more say over the places they call home.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 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. youtu.be/B2FC9Ioh3gk

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 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.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 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.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 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.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 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.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 19/08/2026

Britain is ready to build renewable power that communities own, with profits staying in the places that generate it. Meanwhile, Reform is campaigning to stop that generation and telling us to enjoy the heat instead. The Local Power Plan will put clean generation in local hands.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 18/08/2026

The Premier League returns on Friday. Did you know that dozens of clubs across the English pyramid are owned by the people who stand on their terraces? The fans have a greater say in their club, because they have a greater stake in it.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 13/08/2026

Results day is a brilliant moment, a celebration of years of hard work and real talent. Let's match that ambition by expanding what's taught in England's schools, so the next generation grows up knowing how democratic, member-owned enterprises drive our communities forward.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 13/08/2026

🥳 Congratulations to everyone receiving their A Level, T Level, or VTQ results today! Education is one of the Co-operative Principles, and we believe learning should empower people not just to succeed individually, but to build fairer, stronger communities together.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 06/08/2026

Barclays made £3.3bn profit last quarter alone. UK community lenders, who reach the small businesses banks turn away, lent just £181m in the whole of 2025. Gareth Thomas MP wants Barclays, Santander and HSBC to each put in £10m, and a Fair Banking Act to make sure they do.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 06/08/2026

Who actually owns the businesses and services you rely on every day? We think it should be the people who use and work in them, not shareholders chasing returns. We're welcoming new members every week, and working in government with Labour to make that real. Join us today. 🐝

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 05/08/2026

Law Boxing Club was a council hall facing closure. The community took it over, and today it runs boxing, a choir, a recovery group for former drug users, and Upper Cuts: a barbershop the club opened because barbers are often where men in crisis actually talk to someone.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 04/08/2026

Fans are the heart and soul of every club. The loyalty, the culture, the identity passed down generations. Yet across British sport, clubs are owned by hedge funds and private equity. Our new report says it doesn't have to be this way.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 04/08/2026

🚨NEW: A Stake in the Game Fans pour money, time and loyalty into their clubs. It's time they got a real say and a real stake in return. Our latest Community Britain report makes the case for fan and community ownership of sport, drawing on examples from across the country.

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 03/08/2026

Andy Burnham once said football clubs "belong more to their supporters than their shareholders," as chairman of Supporters Direct. Our new report calls for a Supporters Direct 2.0 to back supporter and community ownership across every sport, not just football.

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