Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate

Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
  • Home
  • Donate
  • Sign up
  • Right-Wing Watch
  • Reform Watch
  • Columnists
  • About
    • About LFF
    • Write for LFF
    • Advertise with LFF
    • Our complaints policy
    • Privacy
  1. Trending
  2. Brexit
  3. EU
  4. Nigel Farage
  5. Reform UK

Thank you for supporting independent media

We’re so grateful for your donation and will make sure your money goes as far as possible

Spread the word about us:

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter
By clicking 'Sign me up' you confirm that you have read and agree to our privacy policy.
Avatar photo

Basit Mahmood

Reform’s Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister’s wife

Basit Mahmood
15 October, 2025

‘Tice and Oakeshott stayed at the Chernukhins’ “turreted villa” with “a stunning view of the Mediterranean” and had supper with them at a Michelin-starred restaurant’

Rachel Reeves delivering her spending review this afternoon

Government acknowledges ‘severe’ economic impact of Brexit

Basit Mahmood
15 October, 2025

Reeves said Brexit is partly to blame for the estimated £50bn blackhole in the economy that she is likely going to have to address at her autumn budget.

reeves

Overwhelming majority of Labour Party members would back breaking tax pledges to fund public services, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
15 October, 2025

The Labour party had pledged during the election not to increase taxes on working people, and subsequently ruled out any rise in national insurance, VAT or income tax.

Reform UK

Reform in turmoil after yet another councillor is suspended

Basit Mahmood
14 October, 2025

Robert Ford was elected to represent Maidstone Rural West in May’s local elections and will now sit as an independent until investigations into the allegations are complete.

A photo of Liz Truss in a Make America great again cap while visiting Washington for Trump's inauguration in January

Has Liz Truss’ ‘free speech’ social media platform fallen flat?

Basit Mahmood
14 October, 2025

Truss said she would launch her own social media platform, believing that the ‘establishment media’ have failed her.

Reform UK

Reform UK group leader at Cornwall Council resigns from role

Basit Mahmood
13 October, 2025

Yet another resignation will add to the sense that Reform is a party in chaos, with a number of councillors having quit since the local elections in May.

Nigel Farage being interviewed about Trump's state banquet

Reform’s DOGE unit fails to find savings in Kent

Basit Mahmood
13 October, 2025

Now it seems that the unit’s first test case has utterly failed, with Kent County Council considering a 5% hike in council tax.

Farage

8 Reform UK councils ‘set to hike taxes’ despite party promise to cut tax bills

Basit Mahmood
13 October, 2025

“A budget consultation for next year opens the door to council tax rises up to a maximum 5 per cent.”

Donald Trump

Nobel committee chair roasts Trump: ‘We only give the award to people of courage and integrity’

Basit Mahmood
10 October, 2025

When Nobel Committee chair Jørgen Watne Frydnes was asked why Trump wasn’t given the award, he suggested Trump wasn’t worthy.

Keir Starmer and Bridget Philipson

Bridget Phillipson pushes the government to abolish two-child benefit cap in full

Basit Mahmood
10 October, 2025

Phillipson is pushing for the cap to be lifted in full, the Guardian reports.

  • ← Older posts
  • Newer posts →
By clicking 'Sign me up' you confirm that you have read and agree to our privacy policy.