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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

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

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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‘The continued denuding of local democracy will stymie real change and open the door to the far right even wider’

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Liz Truss also attended the launch earlier this week

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Figures released today show health workers in England forked out a whopping £70,510,110 just to park at work in the financial year 2023/24.

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Former Tory Tim Montgomerie, who switched from the Conservatives to Reform last month, reveals what he thinks the figure will be.

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Tracy Gilbert MP: How Labour’s New Deal for workers will transform the lives of workers in Scotland

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In Scotland, zero-hour contracts have hit record highs, with many people under employed with contracts averaging just 18.4 hours a week – far less than the stability needed to build a secure life.

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The water company will still be able to hike its bills by 35% by 2030

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Police forces were ‘unprepared’ for far-right riots this summer

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A police risk assessment before the riots described a ‘moderate increase in activity by “extreme right-wing groups” but graded the risk of violent disorder as “low”

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Basit Mahmood
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‘Mr Farage has not taken part in ‘behaviour code awareness training’ and has no intention of engaging with this woke scheme’

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