100th Birthday of the Co-Operative Party

The Co-operative Party is a hundred years old on October 18th 1917. Since 1927 has had an electoral agreement with the Labour Party. There are currently 38 Labour and Co-operative Party members in the House of Commons.

Co-ops remain a big part of our agriculture - half of the UK's farmers are members of agricultural co-ops and farmer-controlled businesses have a turnover of nearly £6 billion a year. There are about 400 farm co-ops across the country - large and small - and Sybil Ruscoe has been to a 50-acre co-operative farm run by Stroud Community Agriculture in Gloucestershire to find out more: