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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)

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Local councils and net zero

Wera Hobhouse MP: As a new Parliament gets underway, one thing is clear – we cannot continue with the policies of the past. 

Wera Hobhouse MP
31 July, 2024

As it stands, we still have time to put the policies in place that will give us the best chance of mitigating climate catastrophe while preserving our natural landscapes and reaching net zero.

NHS strike

Shocking chart reveals how bad public sector pay got under the Tories

Basit Mahmood
31 July, 2024

While Labour has acted swiftly to help public sector workers who have suffered a fall in real wages, the Tories failed when in office.

News

Fresh calls for windfall tax on banks as HSBC reports pre-tax profits of £16.8bn

Hannah Davenport
31 July, 2024

‘Banks continue to prosper from the same higher interest rates which have forced thousands into mortgage arrears’

Nationality and Borders Bill
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Labour announces new pathway for separated Afghan families to reunite

Hannah Davenport
31 July, 2024

Refugee charities welcome the long-awaited ‘life-changing’ expansion to the resettlement scheme

Nigel Farage
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Nigel Farage condemned for spreading ‘baseless far-right rumours’ after horrific Southport attack

Hannah Davenport
31 July, 2024

The widower of MP Jo Cox blasted Farage’s response as “vile”

Suella Braverman

Suella Braverman handed £16.8k of taxpayers’ money when she was sacked

Basit Mahmood
31 July, 2024

Braverman received £16,876 of taxpayers’ money as part of a “non-taxable exit payment” at the end of last year.

NHS
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Britain is crying out for bold solutions to save the NHS

Ellie Chowns MP
30 July, 2024

‘The NHS needs Keir Starmer to use his huge majority to do whatever it takes, and that begins with telling the truth about the huge investment needed to save it’

Liz Truss

Liz Truss is brutally mocked after offering up her opinion on Rachel Reeves’ spending plans

Basit Mahmood
30 July, 2024

“As you are a disastrously failed PM with the shortest tenure in history and were turfed out by the electorate at the general election, we shall file your contribution appropriately.”

teachers
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Trade unions welcome pay deal announcements from Chancellor

Hannah Davenport
30 July, 2024

Union leaders praise change in direction, but warn of divisions in pay restoration for NHS workers

Keir Starmer outside Number 10 Downing Street

The EU’s signal that it may be ready for closer ties with a Labour government can only be a good thing

Tony Burke
30 July, 2024

With growing opposition among UK voters to Brexit, the damage it has done and an increase in ‘buyers remorse’ any improvements to relations with the EU should be popular in the EU itself.

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