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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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‘It’s absurd that some parents are having to turn to credit cards or borrow money to afford nursery costs.’

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Basit Mahmood
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Basit Mahmood
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Badenoch is out of touch…

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The government must make sure that climate action really does go hand-in-hand with improving living standards, and a fair distribution of costs and benefits

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Basit Mahmood
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A mystery company which has zero employees, has never made a profit and is reportedly in more than $300,000 in debt.

Kemi Badenoch

Outrage after Kemi Badenoch says that statutory maternity pay is ‘excessive’

Basit Mahmood
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The UK has one of the lowest maternity pay rates in the OECD.

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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
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‘In the UK, we work some of the longest full-time working hours in Europe, we have done for decades, and we also have one of the least productive economies.’

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