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July 6, 2012 4:38 pm

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After Michael Stephenson moved on a few months ago, the Co-op Party have been searching for a new General Secretary – interviewing a new of quality candidates. Today they announced that they have appointed Karin Christiansen – the party’s first female Gen Sec in their 95 year history.

Christiansen was a founder member of Labour Values and is a strong proponent of party democracy and reform. She will be taking over at the Co-op after Annual Conference.

Speaking this afternoon following the announcement, she said:

“It is a great privilege to be joining the Co-operative Party as General Secretary. I am honoured to be taking over this role from Michael Stephenson, who has served the Party and continues to serves the co-operative movement with such distinction.

“The Co-operative Party is a powerful voice for change in the way we run our economy and the way we conduct our politics. The values and principles of co-operation need to be embedded in our country, our communities and throughout our institutions.

“I am looking forward to working with the members of the Co-operative Party and the broader movement as well as the excellent team Michael and the National Executive Committee have built to do this.”

Congratulations to Karin from everyone at LabourList.

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  • Dave Postles

    Excellent news.  Very best wishes to her (I retain my membership of the Coop Party).

    • treborc

      I still carry my Coop card as well.

      • Jen

        I’m sure she will be perfectly fine but this does look  like yet another very London-centric  ‘we’re all-Fabians together’ appointment? I had never heard of Labour Values despite being a Labour Party member, a Co-op Party member and being very active in both. Having looked at the Labour Values website I wonder why it hasn’t been updated since January? If  being a member of the organisation is worth mentioning as a credential for getting the Co-op job, surely it should have been more than a website - and more than a website that lasted, it seems, for a few months?

        • treborc

          Labour party values as I said when it opened, should explain to us the values it now sees as being important, sadly they never reply it’s like so many sites it says something asks for comment but never I suspect bothers reading it comments   

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