mutuals Articles

Last December, in the middle of a bout of extreme weather that ironically saw the suspension of all rail services in Scotland, a dedicated group of Co-operative party members and transport experts met in a room in the Holyrood Hotel in Edinburgh for the launch of...

If you had said four years ago that the Tories would be setting the agenda on welfare reform at this stage of the parliament, and that Labour would be trailing so badly on one of its core issues, you could have expected to be put in a straitjacket. But with the...

There we were on the Treasury select committee, doing an inquiry into the collapse of the Co-op Bank, just as had been done into Northern Rock and RBS. Chief executives past and present trooped in. They gave their versions of the takeover of the Britannia building...

The government’s support for mutuals appears skin-deep Karin Christiansen —In the nine months I have been general secretary of the Cooperative party, I have been listening to coalition pronouncements on mutuals with great interest and growing confusion. At first there...