Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate

Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
  • Home
  • Donate
  • Sign up
  • Right-Wing Watch
  • Reform Watch
  • Columnists
  • About
    • About LFF
    • Write for LFF
    • Advertise with LFF
    • Our complaints policy
    • Privacy
  1. Trending
  2. Labour
  3. NHS
  4. economy
  5. Climate Change

Thank you for supporting independent media

We’re so grateful for your donation and will make sure your money goes as far as possible

Spread the word about us:

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter
By clicking 'Sign me up' you confirm that you have read and agree to our privacy policy.

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.

A photo of an NHS protest with the Left Foot Forward logo in the top right corner

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.

Left Foot Forward

Latest Posts

Richard Tice Reform UK
News

Richard Tice condemned for defending Reform MP who kicked girlfriend

Basit Mahmood
5 December, 2024

A spokesperson for Women’s Aid told Sky News they were “appalled” by Mr Tice’s interview.

News

Brexit cuts British food exports to the EU by nearly £3bn per year

Olivia Barber
5 December, 2024

Exports to the EU have fallen by an average of 16% per year in the last three years

Voting Ballot Box
News

Britons favour proportional representation over First Past the Post, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
5 December, 2024

It comes after MPs narrowly voted in favour of reforming the voter system, in what was a symbolic vote, unlikely to become law, earlier this week.

A photo of a prison officer on duty in a prison
News

Tory prison expansion plan to cost £4bn more than planned, damning NAO report finds

Olivia Barber
4 December, 2024

The NAO has described the plan as “unrealistic and not prioritised”.

Keir Starmer
News

Kemi Badenoch humiliated at PMQs as Keir Starmer reminds her that ‘two of her predecessors had convictions for breaking the COVID rules’

Basit Mahmood
4 December, 2024

‘Mr Speaker I gently remind her that two of her predecessors had convictions for breaking Covid rules.’

A high speed train
News

Revealed: The first rail services to be brought back into public ownership

Olivia Barber
4 December, 2024

“John Major’s decision to privatise British Rail in 1994 was foolish, ideologically-driven, and doomed to fail.”

Voting Ballot Box
News

MPs support proportional representation system for UK elections in symbolic vote

Basit Mahmood
4 December, 2024

t comes after MPs from across the political divide came together last month to issue a cross-party call for Britain’s First Past the Post voting system to be scrapped.

Grenfell
News

MPs make fresh calls for criminal proceedings in debate on Grenfell phase 2 report

Olivia Barber
3 December, 2024

“Justice will only truly be served when there are criminal prosecutions and those responsible pay the price.”

A photo of building site
Opinion

It’s not the financialisation of housing that is causing the housing crisis: It’s a lack of supply

Chris Worrall
3 December, 2024

The accusation that housing has suddenly turned into a financial commodity ignores history

Man with mask holding vaccine
News

Rachel Reeves appoints counter-fraud commissioner to probe dodgy covid contracts awarded under Tories

Olivia Barber
3 December, 2024

Tom Hayhoe has landed the covid counter-fraud job, with an initial focus on reviewing PPE contracts

  • ← Older posts
  • Newer posts →
By clicking 'Sign me up' you confirm that you have read and agree to our privacy policy.