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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

Our readership continues to grow but none of this would’ve been possible without readers and donors. We need your support now more than ever, with the rise of the right, as progressives we must continue to fight back against regressive policies and ideas.

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LFF is closed over the Christmas holidays

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

We will be returning on Monday 5th January with more hard-hitting news and comment, written by and for the UK left.

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David Cameron has also taken on a paid position as chair at a US hedge fund

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Nigel Farage in humiliating interview after trying to dodge key Brexit questions

Basit Mahmood
4 February, 2025

Five years on from when Britain officially left the EU, YouGov has carried out polling which shows that more than half of Brits (55%) believe the country was wrong to vote to leave the EU in 2016.

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4 February, 2025

The Tory MP said ‘we would not have been able to roll out that vaccine as quickly as we did’

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Olivia Barber
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‘You’re now an MP, you’re the leader of a party, don’t you need to say what we can do?’

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Just 2% of voters think Brexit has had a very positive impact on the NHS, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
4 February, 2025

Many will recall the Brexit bus which promised an extra £350 million a week for the NHS should Britain vote leave.

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The water industry shows how the state indulges corporations to the detriment of society

Prem Sikka
4 February, 2025

Since 1989, water companies have been the subject of over 1,100 criminal convictions, but governments are content for them to control the industry.

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Thousands of Asda workers win latest stage of decade-long equal pay claim

Olivia Barber
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A tribunal has found that most female shopworkers involved in the case have jobs of equal value to higher-paid positions in Asda’s warehouses.

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GB News’ arguments on Brexit, borders and Trump taken apart by Labour activists

Basit Mahmood
3 February, 2025

Businesses are drowning in red-tape, with £7bn in costs from additional customs administration and at least £10bn in lost trade, with exports dropping by 30% as a result of Brexit

Voting Ballot Box

Half of Brits support introducing Proportional Representation voting system, latest poll finds

Basit Mahmood
3 February, 2025

The public also believe that it is more important for seats to be allocated proportionally between parties (46%) than for the largest party to win a majority of seats in the House of Commons (27%).

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Suella Braverman spent thousands of public money on media training while Home Secretary

Olivia Barber
3 February, 2025

Despite the costly media training, Braverman was later sacked for a media outburst

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