The Ownership Commission, set up by the UK Labour government in 2010, last week published a report on its findings on British business ownership. The Commission, chaired by Will Hutton, was initially set up to look into how employee and cooperative forms of ownership might be applied in the UK public sector. The work was expanded, however, to look at British business ownership in general and the research now includes information on the mutual business model and other forms of employee ...

Co-operatives UK has been handed a key role in plans to mutualise the Post Office network after the organisation’s Secretary General, Ed Mayo, contacted the Government to suggest the co-operative model as the best way forward.