With the onset of lockdown in the Spring, the Co-operative Party took the decision to postpone the ballot for the new NEC.  We did this because the election administrators could not guarantee that they would be able to access their premises to dispatch or count postal votes during lockdown.

This means that new NEC was elected in September and met for the first time, formally, by zoom in October rather than in June.

The NEC of the Co-operative Party is elected every three years, with the current members now serving from October 2020 until June 2023.  See here for details of the new NEC.

This update gives an outline of issues discussed at the first meeting of the NEC.

Please do share this information with your members in meetings but remember that this is an internal Party briefing and is not to be shared outside of the Party, with the press or on social media.