Our policy platform sets the agenda for our party. In the tradition of co-operation, our policy process is member-led. This is your opportunity to shape the ideas we’ll take to all levels of Government.
This year, our policy consultation will focus on two important areas: international development and co-operation, and local government.
This consultation will enable both individual members and local party branches to submit their views. It's easy to take part and share your views: our consultation questions can be submitted easily online.
Please share your views and ideas through our consultation, which is running until Friday 31st July.
There are a number of ways to get involved – you could attend your Party Council meeting to discuss the topics and share your collective views or submit your individual answers to us, both via the online portal.
We will also be holding special policy consultation sessions at our regional and devolved nations conferences in the summer. These workshops will allow participants to contribute their views directly to Party staff as part of the policy development process.
Your contributions will be collected and considered by the NEC’s policy sub-committee, who use your ideas and feedback to shape policy proposals. These will be brought to the Co-operative Party Annual Conference in the Autumn for delegates to debate and vote on.
These consultation questions are a guide for members. We do encourage local parties and members to share anything they believe is relevant to the debate and should not feel obliged to answer every single question either.
This year, the policy consultation will focus on expanding our policy offering for co-operative councils and councillors. The Co-operative Party has recent reached historic highs and currently boasts over 1,400 councillors across the UK, which is approximately a quarter of elected Labour councillors. This provides the opportunity to put co-operative values, principles and policies into action in communities across the country.
Labour and Co-operative councillors have helped to pioneer community energy development, support the creation of new co-operatives, take action against modern slavery and undertaken many more actions to benefit their residents. This consultation will seek to learn from councillors and members on how we can take this local government work forward – so that co-operation can benefit every community.
Whether you’re a sitting councillor, a council candidate or a party member we want to hear from you.
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This year, the policy consultation will seek to update our policy offering on international development and expand our existing work on peace and co-operation. Since its inception, the co-operative movement has been a force for good across the world. Starting from Toad Lane in Rochdale, the co-operative movement has become a global movement of over 1 billion members. Co-operatives and mutuals have a presence in almost every country, and the combined co-operative economy is equivalent to the eighth largest economy on earth.
The Co-operative Party strongly believe in the power of the co-operative movement to make a positive impact in times of global conflict and insecurity. Ongoing conflicts across the world present a challenge for all of us. Co-operatives have proven to be a way of building bridges between communities and uniting people post-conflict. Whether it’s the women’s coffee co-operatives in Rwanda or Wahat Al Salam Neve Shalom, the Israeli-Palestinian peace village, the co-operative model has become a way of bringing people together.
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