That's it – polls are now closed! 🗳️ Whether you’re a seasoned veteran or a brand new candidate, today's your first day on the boards or you've been campaigning for weeks, or you're a passionate reposter or day-to-day doorknocker, thank you for your work to support our movement. 🌹🐝

Your local area deserves local ownership – and the Community Right to Buy can make it possible. Vote Labour & Co-operative today to deliver it.

Because co-operatives are owned by the people who use them, they're rooted in place. They respond to local needs and keep wealth circulating locally. Vote for your local Labour & Co-operative candidate, to see your high street owned by and working for the people who live there.

Research shows that even when people feel pessimistic about the national picture, they still feel proud of their area. Hope lives locally. Pride in Place is built on that promise: £20m per community, with decisions made by residents, not Whitehall. Vote Labour & Co-operative today.

Polls are open for this year's elections, until 10pm. Vote Labour and Co-operative for local power, local ownership, local wealth, and local pride.

Tomorrow, voters in England will have their greatest ever opportunity to vote for co-operation in their communities. Co-operators are standing in 119 councils, almost 90% of all councils electing, including in three mayoral races in Croydon, Hackney and Lewisham. party.coop/2026/05/06/c...

From Bunhill and Bartley Green to Walbottle and Worthing, Labour & Co-operative members and campaigners have been on the doorstep this election campaign. Co-operative councillors keep it local: local power, local ownership, local wealth, and local pride. Polls open tomorrow.

Our new report is out today: Building Resilience: the case for co-operative agriculture. Food security isn't abstract. War, climate change and fragile supply chains are already pushing up prices and squeezing farmers. Co-operative agriculture offers a better way forward. 🧵

Every closed pub is a loss. Once sold off to a developer, the community loses the space for good. Or the community buys it, runs it, and keeps it. The Community Right to Buy makes the second option possible, and elected Labour & Co-operative councillors will use it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thursday 7 May is polling day. Vote Labour & Co-operative for local power, local ownership, local pride, and local wealth.

We can build resilience through co-operation. Co-ops run 68% of agri-food in the Netherlands, 55% in France, but under 10% in the UK.   Britain needs to control our supply chains to be able to reliably feed ourselves. Read more in the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Happy May Day! 🚩 For the first time in British history, shopworkers are specifically protected from assault and abuse at work – a protection won with help from @Usdawunion.bsky.social and co-operative societies, and delivered by Labour & Co-operative MPs.

Your Labour & Co-operative candidates will fight to make sure your area keeps the spaces that matter to you in local hands, with the new Community Right to Buy. Vote Labour and Co-operative on 7 May.

There's one week to go until the Local Elections. Our Labour and Co-operative candidates across the country standing are standing on a platform of local wealth, local pride, local ownership, and local energy. This time next week, vote Labour and Co-operative.

A generation of community assets has been sold off with no route for local people to intervene. That ends today. The Community Right to Buy, a Co-operative Party policy, is now law – with the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill.

Ownership has sometimes become a side issue in politics, but it shouldn’t be. Who owns determines who decides. The English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill is shifting power to local people, introducing a Community Right to Buy local assets at a fair price.

Power belongs in your hands, not just in Westminster. Today, the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill finally passes into law, featuring a landmark Community Right to Buy. This is massive win for community power and for the co-operative movement. 🐝

Shopworkers face abuse, threats and assault every day. Nearly 80% experienced abuse last year. @UsdawUnion.bsky.social and the co-op movement spent years arguing that assaulting a retail worker should be a specific criminal offence. We're proud to see the Prime Minister champion it today.

There's plenty to be proud of in our country and communities. The English Devolution & Community Empowerment Act will start to put power behind that pride. Watch @jimmcmahon.co.uk call for further support to make the most of the new Community Right to Buy.

OurCoop is now helping community energy groups power 65,000 homes with renewable energy, through over 380 partnerships with groups across the UK. That's more than a third of all community-generated renewable energy in the country, saving over 800 tonnes of CO2 per year.

The workers making British music festivals great should be the ones who own them. A UK festival just became employee-owned for the first time in history. We’re calling on the government to make this the standard, not the exception, for the creative industries.

We'd like to wish all those celebrating today a very Happy St George's Day!

The Earth belongs to all of us. 🌍🌱 Community energy means our power can too. Happy Earth Day.

The Government is funding 1,000 new community renewable projects, putting solar on schools, community centres, and other public buildings. That means lower bills, local power, and stronger communities. Vote Labour & Co-operative 7 May.

Funding alone isn’t enough. Communities need real power to protect their local assets from being sold off or left empty. Through the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, the Government are introducing a new Community Right to Buy. Let's stop the sell-off.

What's at stake is simple: connection, pride, and opportunity. As Communities Minister @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social says - community ownership is how we protect all that and more, for every community.

Your community, your choice. The new Community Right to Buy will give you the power to protect the places you love, from the local pub to your sports ground. We have consistently argued for this landmark shift because we believe when communities have a stake, they thrive.

The Local Power Plan could build renewable energy projects across the country. That could mean solar on our schools and public buildings owned by local people, with profits reinvested here rather than extracted by distant energy companies.

The Government is serious about doubling the size of the co-operative sector as pledged and we are backing this model. (2/2) @coopparty.party.coop

Great to welcome a delegation from the French co-operative movement to Parliament this week. Thanks to those who joined the panel to discuss scaling the sector and making sure co-ops have a bigger role in building a fairer economy. (1/2)

Shuttered shops are not a new problem – so the solution cannot be a return to the status quo. Co-operative ownership can help revive struggling town centres - turning empty shops into community assets and giving local people a real stake in their high streets.

Community ownership is key to a sustainable future for live music. Kirsteen Sullivan MP champions the co-operative models that keep local venues open and creative talent thriving.

We need a new direction for our high streets: a co-operative direction. That means giving communities real power to shape the places they call home.

"The Scottish Co-operative Party will be supporting our candidates and members as they make the case for this new co-operative direction across the country. In May, vote Scottish Labour & Co-operative!" ✏️ Dan Monaghan

The usual answer to struggling high streets is outside investment – but businesses owned by distant shareholders pull out when times get tough. Co-ops stay: owned by their members, rooted in their communities, and keep wealth circulating locally. Vote Labour and Co-operative.

We’d like to wish a very happy and prosperous Vaisakhi to all those celebrating!

🗳️ If you shop at Co-op with a blue membership card, you can vote to support the historic partnership between our Party and the Co-op Group. Find out more about how you can Vote Yes on Motion 8 below. party.coop/coopagm26

Community centres and village halls are at the heart of our communities – but the rising cost of repairs are putting them at risk. Read more from @aliwlabour.bsky.social on why repairs on community buildings should be VAT exempt. 👉 party.coop/2026/04/09/b...

What would you change with £20,000,000? A new community centre. Better parks. Support for local businesses. Somewhere for young people to go. With Pride in Place, it's your community's decision – not Whitehall's. Vote Labour and Co-operative on 7th of May for local pride.

Nominations for this year's Local Elections have closed – and we're proud to be standing over 1,100 candidates under the Labour and Co-operative banner. For local pride, local power, local wealth, and local ownership, vote Labour and Co-operative on the 7th of May. 🌹🐝

Nominations for this year's Local Elections have closed – and we're proud to be standing over 1,100 candidates under the Labour and Co-operative banner. For local pride, local power, local wealth, and local ownership, vote Labour and Co-operative on the 7th of May. 🌹🐝

Every community in the country deserves local pride, local potential, and local investment. On the 7th of May, you can back Labour and Co-operative candidates who will make that happen with Pride in Place. 🌹🐝

Keeping community centres open isn’t cheap – and unlike museums and galleries, they have to pay VAT on repairs. Read more about our campaign to change that in The Mirror 👉 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Pride in Place does what levelling-up never could: it puts funding and decision-making power directly in communities' hands. Vote Labour and Co-operative on 7 May for councillors who will deliver pride in your area.

From all of us at the Co-operative Party, we’d like to wish a very Happy Easter to everyone celebrating!

On the 7th of May, over 1,100 Co-operative candidates will stand across the UK, contesting more than 1 in 5 seats up for election, in over 120 councils. Vote Labour and Co-operative on 7 May.

🏡 Housing co-ops work. The problem is that UK law doesn't have a home for them. Without a proper co-operative housing tenure, co-ops have to work to legal structures built for something else, making them harder to set up, harder to scale, and harder to access. Let's change that.

🇪🇸 NEW: Spain is showing how to unlock co-ops at scale. ✅ Make them easier to run ✅ Back them with law ✅ Recognise community energy and housing co-ops For co-ops and the wider social economy, this is how the model grows.

We’re sending our warmest wishes to Jewish communities in the UK and around the world celebrating Passover.

"What’s happening here is a blueprint for how we can improve our communities up and down the country." Gareth Snell MP visited Birches Head Get Growing CIC to see how they're delivering for local people through community food banks, youth intervention programs and sustainable growing.