Co-operative Party - The Party Today

The Party Today

The modern party is the political arm of the wider British co-operative movement and requires being a member of another co-operative enterprise a central tenet of membership. The party's ties with the Labour Party are strong with co-operative members who wish to stand for election also having to be members of the Labour Party, as joint Labour Co-operative candidates.

There are currently 30 Co-operative MPs:

  • Jon Ashworth (MP for Leicester South)
  • Adrian Bailey (MP for West Bromwich West)
  • Ed Balls (MP for Morley and Outwood)
  • Luciana Berger (MP for Liverpool Wavertree)
  • Stella Creasy (MP for Walthamstow)
  • Ian Davidson (MP for Glasgow South West)
  • Geraint Davies (MP for Swansea West)
  • Jim Dobbin (MP for Heywood and Middleton)
  • Stephen Doughty (MP for Cardiff South and Penarth)
  • Gemma Doyle (MP for West Dunbartonshire)
  • Louise Ellman (MP for Liverpool Riverside)
  • Chris Evans (MP for Islwyn)
  • Mark Hendrick (MP for Preston)
  • Meg Hillier (MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch)
  • Mike Gapes (MP for Ilford South)
  • Tom Greatrex (MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
  • Cathy Jamieson (MP for Kilmarnock and Loudon)
  • Mark Lazarowicz (MP for Edinburgh North and Leith)
  • Chris Leslie (MP for Nottingham East)
  • Andy Love (MP for Edmonton)
  • Seema Malhotra (MP for Feltham and Heston)
  • Meg Munn (MP for Sheffield Heeley)
  • Jonathan Reynolds (MP for Stalybridge and Hyde)
  • Linda Riordan (MP for Halifax)
  • Andy Sawford (MP for Corby)
  • Barry Sheerman (MP for Huddersfield)
  • Gavin Shuker (MP for Luton South)
  • Gareth Thomas (MP for Harrow West)
  • Stephen Twigg (MP for Liverpool West Derby)
  • John Woodcock (MP for Barrow and Furness)

In the House of Lords, 14 are Co-operative Party members:

  • Lord Bassam of Brighton
  • Lord Bilston
  • Lord Davies of Coity
  • Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
  • Lord Graham of Edmonton
  • Lord McAvoy
  • Lord McFall of Alcluith
  • Lord Moonie
  • Baroness Nicol
  • Baroness Smith of Basildon
  • Lord Thomas of Macclesfield
  • Baroness Thornton
  • Lord Tomlinson
  • Lord Touhig

There are five Co-operative Party members in the Scottish Parliament:

  • Claudia Beamish (List MSP for South Scotland)
  • Kezia Dugdale (List MSP for Lothian)
  • Helen Eadie (MSP for Cowdenbeath)
  • James Kelly (MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen)
  • Johann Lamont (MSP for Glasgow Pollock)

In the National Assembly for Wales, the following nine AMs are members of the Co-operative Party:

  • Mick Antoniw (AM for Pontypridd)
  • Christine Chapman (AM for Cynon Valley)
  • Alun Davies (AM for Blaenau Gwent)
  • Vaughan Gething (AM for Cardiff South and Penarth)
  • John Griffiths (AM for Newport East)
  • Ann Jones (AM for Vale of Clwyd)
  • Huw Lewis (AM for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney)
  • Sandy Mewies (AM for Delyn)
  • Lynne Neagle (AM for Torfaen)

Seven members of the London Regional Assembly are Co-operative Party members:

  • Jennette Arnold AM
  • John Biggs AM
  • Len Duvall AM
  • Nicky Gavron AM
  • Joanne McCartney AM
  • Murad Qureshi AM
  • Valerie Shawcross AM

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