Leslie Huckfield is a lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University and the Open University. His main focus is on Social Enterprise, Cooperatives and Mutuals. He was a Director of the Social Enterprise Network Scotland (SENSCOT) from 2009 till 2020, where he was an active member. He was also a Director of the Sheffield Cooperative Development Group and Founding Member of the Aizlewood Group, which promotes trade union and cooperative alternatives to privatisation.His PhD Thesis "Reclaiming Social Enterprise from its Neoliberal Turn" concerned the disconnection between Social Enterprise today and its antecedents in Social Enterprises and Worker Cooperatives in the 1970s and 1980s. Manchester University Press published his book "How Blair Killed the Coops" in November 2021, to which this is the link: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526149732/He has been a Member of the House of Commons, a Minister in the Department of Trade and Industry and a Member of the European Parliament. He was joint leader of the occupation of the Meriden Motor Cycle works in 1973 to form a Workers’ Cooperative and represented Cooperatives on the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party. He is an active Unite the Union member of the Edinburgh Not for Profit Branch, many of whose members deliver services under contract to City of Edinburgh Council. Apart from research and teaching at Glasgow Caledonian University, he makes regular presentations at seminars and conferences for not for profit organisations in England and Scotland. His series of detailed postings on his site at www.huckfield.com are carefully referenced and sourced. Readers are welcome to "cut and paste" from these sources, provided that they are attributed.