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