Co-operative Party annual conference 2014

What: Co-operative Party Annual Conference 2014 When: 11-12 October 2014 Where: TUC Congress Centre, London Who: Speakers included: Ed Balls (shadow chancellor), Johann Lamont (leader, Scottish Labour Party),...

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What: Co-operative Party Annual Conference 2014

When: 11-12 October 2014

Where: TUC Congress Centre, London

Who: Speakers included: Ed Balls (shadow chancellor), Johann Lamont (leader, Scottish Labour Party), Gavin Shuker MP (chair of the Co-operative Party Parliamentary Group), Katie Corrigan (NEC youth representative), Angela Eagle MP (shadow leader of the House of Commons) and Dame Pauline Green (president, International Co-operative Alliance).

All images: Co-operative Party / Thomas Butler

  • Louise Baldock and Seema Malhotra during the debate on women and equalities (Image: Co-operative Party/Thomas Butler)

    Co-operative Party annual conference: the debates

    A key part of the 2014 Co-operative Party annual conference was the culmination of the Party’s policy development process, which is in its second year. The purpose of this process is to give all members the opportunity to input ideas and discuss the policies that will form the basis of the Party’s 2015 election manifesto. Throughout the weekend, members debated Co-operative Party policy on: ...

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  • Angela Eagle calls for a co-operative response to the ‘politics of fear’

    Co-operatives have helped to create a model that is a different way of running the economy. This was the message from Angela Eagle, MP for Wallasey, in her keynote address at the Co-operative Party annual conference. Ms Eagle also talked about the relationship between the co-operative and labour movements and the offer they can make to the electorate. The Labour politician, who chairs the ...

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  • The co-operative model can help devolve power to communities in Scotland, says Johann Lamont

    It has been a momentous year for Scottish politics, Johann Lamont told delegates at the Co-operative Party Conference in London. The leader of the Scottish Labour Party, who received a standing ovation from delegates for her speech, called for unity and a co-operative approach to addressing the nation’s problems. Referring to the recent Scottish referendum, she said: “We have a huge job to ...

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  • Co-op principles and Welsh government policy

    Speaking at the Co-operative Party’s annual conference, Welsh Assembly Member Mick Antoniw said co-operative principles were implemented in a number of areas of Welsh government policy, such as education and housing. This, he added, helped achieve progress despite the impact of a £1.8bn cut in the Welsh Assembly government budget. Mr Antoniw, who succeeded Vaughan Gething as chair of the ...

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  • "By common endeavour we achieve more than we can achieve alone," says Ed Balls at the Co-operative Party conference (Image: Co-operative Party / Thomas Butler)

    Ed Balls calls on Labour and Co-operative parties to 'work together'

    Co-operative principles will underpin the Labour Party’s proposals on health care, banking and energy reform, confirmed shadow chancellor Ed Balls. Addressing delegates at the Co-operative Party’s annual conference in London, he asked them to “stick together” to build an economy and society that “works for all and not just the few”. The shadow chancellor began his speech with a story about ...

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  • Gareth Thomas addresses delegates at the Co-operative Party annual conference (Image: Co-operative Party / Thomas Butler)

    ‘Co-operative difference’ at the heart of Co-op Party conference.

    “We’ve had a very difficult period as co-operators,” said Gareth Thomas MP at the opening of the Co-operative Party annual conference. The event, which took place on 11-12 October at the Trades Union Congress House in London, brought together party activists, leading politicians and figures from the wider movement to discuss how to “build a better politics with co-operative values at its ...

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  • Delegates adopt changes to Co-operative Party Rule Book

    Delegates at the Co-operative Party annual conference discussed a number of rule changes, and voted in favour of a rule change that allocated local parties one vote per member instead of one vote per £25 paid to the national party. This change required a two thirds majority in order to be carried due to the fact that it included a rule change Another rule change approved by delegates was to ...

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