How do we defeat Reform and the far right?
Hear from Hope Not Hate’s Nick Lowles at the first edition of LFF Live

We asked progressives from across the political spectrum about what lessons they think we need to learn and how to fight back in the year ahead.

Nigel Farage has already faced multiple calls to sack Parry over his remarks

‘For all the Reform and Tory goons at the back who thrive on fake news… There’s no change to the general election’

Reform has accepted almost £45,000 in donations from an entrepreneur who has had several run-ins with the law

Reform campaigned on a promise to cut wasteful spending and save taxpayers’ money before the local elections

Place your bets now. In 2026, don’t be surprised if we’re reading headlines about “woke” fonts being purged from Reform-run councils altogether.

This familiar trope persists in the right-wing media – reduce climate policy to sneering attacks on Ed Miliband and avoid engaging with the substance of the argument.

Britain’s train operators charge fares more than twice the European Union average for routes of comparable length.

To present a frozen £10 payment, worth a fraction of its original value, as indulgence is another example of grievance-mongering dressed up as journalism.

From Trump to Fox News, Johnson to Fleet Street, misinformation is not a series of isolated failures. It’s a business model, one that rewards outrage, punishes accuracy and treats the public not as citizens to be informed, but as audiences to be manipulated.