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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (3 days ago)

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 (3 days ago)

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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Parliament

EXCLUSIVE: Overwhelming majority of voters believe MPs should not have second jobs, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2024

The poll, carried out by Savanta, found that 66% of those surveyed said that MPs should not be allowed to have second jobs, while just 23% said that they should.

Thérèse Coffey

Former Tory deputy PM Therese Coffey applied for job in Labour’s Treasury department

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2024

It would have been chancellor Rachel Reeves deciding ultimately who would’ve been appointed to the role, which pays £183,400 a year, roughly double the salary of an MP.

Liz Truss

Liz Truss storms off stage after being humiliated by lettuce banner prank

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2024

“Liz Truss is on a pro-Trump speaking tour. So we dropped a strategically-positioned remote-controlled lettuce banner.”

Office worker

‘Structural racism’ means one in six BME workers are in an insecure job, we desperately need to tackle systemic discrimination

Paul Nowak
13 August, 2024

The massive and disproportionate concentration of BME workers in Britain in low-paid and precarious work is structural racism in action – and yet another damning legacy from 14 years of Conservative rule.  

Donald Trump

If media is so fixated on equivalence, where are the calls for Trump to step aside?

Mark Bergman
13 August, 2024

Almost incomprehensively, for months, while the media and commentators were calling out President Biden’s age, gaffes and gait, and increasingly questioning his mental competence, Donald Trump largely has had a pass.  

house of lords

EXCLUSIVE: Majority of public say hereditary peers in the House of Lords should be abolished, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
13 August, 2024

When it comes to party affiliation, a majority of Conservative Party voters, 54%, supported abolishing hereditary peers, as do 57% of Labour Party voters, 61% of Lib Dem voters and 63% of Green Party voters.

Boris Johnson walking up a set of stairs smiling

Boris Johnson could return to the Telegraph as global editor-in-chief as Nadhim Zahawi plots bid

Basit Mahmood
13 August, 2024

Johnson has longstanding links with the Telegraph, having previously written a column for the paper and having started his journalism career there.

Elon musk

Labour minister launches brutal takedown of Elon Musk’s X

Basit Mahmood
12 August, 2024

‘I don’t wish to fish in that particular pond anymore.’

Brexit

EXCLUSIVE: Majority of voters want Labour government to seek closer ties with the EU, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
12 August, 2024

The poll findings come at a time of widespread dissatisfaction among the public with Brexit, with polls consistently showing that a majority of voters believe Brexit to have been a mistake.

US Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris
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Labour unions and the US presidential election

Tony Burke
12 August, 2024

‘Trump is on the back foot and US unions are now openly fronting up their members and their families to vote for Harris.’

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