It's a special moment when a co-operator, as a Minister of State, gets to introduce new legislation that fulfils such an important priority of our movement.

Here's our Chair, Jim McMahon, on why today's English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill is so crucial. It's why we're in politics.

Great to hear from our Chair and Minister for Local Government Jim McMahon MP at our Local Government Conference, celebrating co-operative leadership in action and the difference it makes in our communities.

Our Mayors are crucial to building Community Britain.

We caught up with Tracy Brabin fresh off the stage at our Local Government Conference to chat all things community.

🚨 NEW: UK Government announces new funding for community-owned energy through GB Energy! ⚡

✅ Backing local power for communities across Britain
✅ Supporting green energy projects owned by you
✅ Cutting bills while profits stay in your community

Clubs matter because they aren’t simply places we can go: clubs are places we can belong. Being rooted in a membership model they provide a microcosm of what a more co-operative economy and society could be.

Read more from Kirsty McNeill MP's contribution to Stories from Community Britain below.

Britain's shopworkers kept us safe through the pandemic, but too often nowadays they're met with threats, abuse, and violence.

Working with Usdaw and Labour, we're determined to end retail crime - because everyone has the right to feel safe at work.

Anneliese Dodds is one of our proud Co-operative MPs.

As we seek to find a lasting peace for Israelis and Palestinians, we need to see co-operative development to help create sustainable foundations which rebuild communities.

Happy International Women's Day!

Women lead across our Party, with nearly half our councillors and mayors, over half of our PCCs, and the most gender-representative group of the 2024 Parliament.

Gender equality has been and always will be a cornerstone of the co-operative movement.

“Equality isn’t an ideal; it’s a necessity and it’s time we accelerate our actions to achieve it.”

Read more from the Co-operative Party Women's Network on why it is so important for co-operators to accelerate action against inequality this #InternationalWomensDay.

🚨 BREAKING: This week, the Government introduced to Parliament three vital steps to support our shopworkers in the Crime and Policing Bill, delivering on commitments made to make our high streets safer.

Today, we're launching our vision to put communities at the heart of politics.

Community Britain is about making the extraordinary stories in every community, ordinary.

Read more from @fortunejf.bsky.social https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/we-must-do-more-to-empower-communities

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