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Housing activist exposes truth about ‘landlords leaving the market’ over Renters’ Right Act

Basit Mahmood
2 April, 2026 (4 days ago)

Landlord groups have claimed that many are leaving the market because of over-regulation.

Martin Mawdsley from ACORN Liverpool

Your Party to focus on backing independent candidates in the upcoming local elections

Olivia Barber
2 April, 2026 (4 days ago)

The new left-wing outfit won’t be fielding its own candidates

Jeremy Corbyn speaking at Your Party Conference

Reform UK candidate expresses admiration for Oswald Mosley and wants to keep migrants in slave labour

Basit Mahmood
2 April, 2026 (4 days ago)

These are the kinds of people Reform is putting up for election.

Arnold-Tabor

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Olivia Barber
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Reform claimed 10,000 tickets were sold, but the many empty seats showed attendance was lower

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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
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There’s a new word doing the rounds… ‘Christianphobia.’  And the right accuses us ‘woke lefties’ of misusing language to manipulate discourse.

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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
30 March, 2025

Amid the criticism, one key group is being overlooked – disabled workers.

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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
30 March, 2025

It doesn’t take much for Nigel Farage’s loyal employer GB News to jump to the defence of the Reform UK leader.

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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
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Homelessness remains an urgent issue in Manchester.

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The return of disability scapegoating

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
29 March, 2025

Fast forward 14 years since the Sun’s repugnant ‘Beat the Cheat’ campaign, and the same misguided and exaggerated vilification of disabled people has resurfaced, this time under a Labour government.

Brexit
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Macclesfield Labour MP lauded for ‘superb’ speech on rejoining the EU

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
29 March, 2025

Unsurprisingly, the debate received little coverage from mainstream media.

A photo of Gary Stevenson speaking on BBC Question Time
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Gary Stevenson ‘takes down’ GB News host in wealth tax debate on BBC Question Time

Olivia Barber
28 March, 2025

“Why are we taxing working people more than billionaires? Tax wealth, not work”

A photo of the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, delivering the government's Spring Statement
Opinion

Why austerity is a political choice not an economic necessity

Prem Sikka
28 March, 2025

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement is atest

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