I look forward to, if elected, continuing to promote my position as being Labour and Co-operative and taking up the ideas and resources they provide me.

Giving children the very best start in life means getting the right support to expectant and new mothers and their children, and Healthy Start has an important role to play. I look forward to campaigning with Co-op friends to ensure the scheme reaches every family who needs and should benefit from it, and helps young children to thrive.

A legal Right to Grow would create a legal duty on councils to publish a list of land held by all public authorities which is suitable for community cultivation or environmental enhancement.

A second Economic Crime Bill must be brought forward as a matter of urgency to address weakness in our current system that many seek to exploit.

Join us at Labour Party Conference as we discuss how to end the industrial scale money laundering, tax avoidance and prevalence of dirty money within the UK economy.

Labour and Co-operative Councillor and BAME Co-operators Committee Member Rizwan Jalil reflects on what South Asian Heritage Month means to him and millions more marking the occasion.

Why in a climate crisis and cost-of-living crisis do we all keep buying so much stuff? Well we don't have to. The Library of Things is a collection of things that people don't use very often but have to buy.

The Co-operative Party have long campaigned for food justice in the UK, calling for action to be taken at a local and national level to end food poverty across the nation.

Last year’s attempt to demutualise the UK’s second largest mutual insurer, LV=, brought the debate around mutual ownership, and indeed the process of ending that mutual status in to sharp relief.

We need to recruit more members and encourage more people to stand as Labour & Co-operative candidates. Engaging with Labour Party meetings is essential to highlighting our values and principles locally.

As a direct result of the Co-operative Party's Right to Food motion, at least in our part of the world, fewer people will go hungry.

The next Labour Government would reverse the Government’s decision to merge together both the Foreign Office with the Department for International Development.

We’ve been working with local Co-op stores to understand more about why those who perpetrate this behaviour do so, and by addressing the root causes of the problem, we can give them the treatment and support that they need to break that habit – potentially even giving them roles in the store.

As we reach the summer recess in Parliament it’s an opportunity to look back and celebrate some of the achievements and successes of the Co-operative Party in recent months and look forward to the future.

At the Co-operative Party we are committed to building an economy where power and wealth are shared – join us at our fringe event at Labour Conference this year and come find out about our plan for delivering a co-operative economy.

The announced policies will put community ownership directly at the heart of the next Labour & Co-operative Government’s vision for “levelling up”. We want to give communities the power, time and funding they need to transform their own local areas.

We continue to adapt our approach to combatting modern slavery as those who seek to profit out of human misery seek to evade law enforcement. Let’s hope that the Government reflects on what an achievement the Modern Slavery Act was and not as we fear, seek to unpick it. 

We need a more co-operative approach to governance in our country to deliver a better outcome for the whole of the United Kingdom. As leader of the Scottish Labour Party, I will be publishing a series of papers on how Scottish Labour working alongside our UK colleagues can deliver a stronger Scotland in a modernising United Kingdom.