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We will be returning on Monday 5th January with more hard-hitting news and comment, written by and for the UK left.
As the Labour faithful meets in Brighton this week, one of the party’s council leaders has warned that local authority-run services face being ‘decimated’ the way Thatcher destroyed many nationalised industries in the 1980s.
Gareth Epps of the Social Liberal Forum takes a look back at what the left got out of this week’s Lib Dem conference in Glasgow.
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
Ed Miliband will use a speech at party conference on Saturday to commit a future Labour government to repealing the coalition’s Bedroom Tax.
When Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont address’s the Labour faithful in Brighton this weekend, she will be faced with two key challenges.
Look Left, our round up of the day’s politics, will be going out shortly.
James Bloodworth looks back at the five best/worst Melanie Phillips columns.
This week’s release of new ‘Energy and Emissions Projections’ from the government highlights some major concerns with the UK’s electricity policies.
Wealthy private equity firms are planning to use the government’s new ’employee shareholder’ policy to avoid paying tax on their shares, according to legal experts.
Money Advice Service has shown that the proportion of people struggling to keep up with their bills and credit commitments has risen from 35 per cent in 2006 to 52 per cent in 2013.
