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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
Today

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
Today

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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Government urged to prioritise refugees’ lives after ‘deadliest year’ for Channel crossings

Olivia Barber
2 January, 2025

‘The journey across the English Channel in a small boat has always been perilous. But in 2024 it became more deadly.’

Jonathan Gullis
News

Former Tory MP Jonathan Gullis complains he still can’t find a job after voters dumped him

Basit Mahmood
2 January, 2025

‘I would have a little sympathy if he didn’t vote against feeding hungry school children’

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Reform MP’s firm raked in over £100,000 in taxpayer-funded furlough cash despite making £7.9million profit

Basit Mahmood
2 January, 2025

‘The company recorded a “£7.9million pre-tax profit in 2021 – with a further £2.65million in 2022.’

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News

Elon Musk calls for Tommy Robinson to be freed in flurry of posts on X

Olivia Barber
2 January, 2025

Musk has used his social media platform to call for the far-right figurehead to be released from prison.

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News

Reform UK MPs’ biggest gaffes since being elected

Olivia Barber
27 December, 2024

Spoiler alert: They made some pretty big blunders

Jamie Stone MP
Opinion

Jamie Stone MP on Christmas, the Troubles and the Good Friday Agreement

Jamie Stone
23 December, 2024

Lib Dem MP Jamie Stone recalls a Christmas 35 years ago

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News

Food banks at Christmas: ‘They’re thinking about having enough food, not celebrating’

Olivia Barber
23 December, 2024

A food bank manager and research and policy director at Trussell speak to Left Foot Forward about food bank use at Christmas.

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News

Fran Heathcote: proposed 2.8% civil service pay rise ‘not anywhere near enough’

Olivia Barber
23 December, 2024

Left Foot Forward spoke to PCS and the FDA about the government’s recommended 2.8% pay rise for civil servants.

NHS worker conditions
News

Financial strain threatens nursing profession, as tens of thousands of student nurses consider pulling out

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
22 December, 2024

An estimated 32,000 student nurses could drop out of their courses in coming years because of declining pay after graduation.

Right-Wing Watch

T’was the Puritans wot done it: The ‘Right’s 10 most absurd Christmas cancelled claims’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
22 December, 2024

In the strange world that is GB News and their ilk, where conspiracy theories and outrage are always just around the corner, they would love to cast themselves as the cavaliers against woke roundheads. As ever, reality, and history come to that, is never that simple.

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