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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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Depoliticising the elections regulator is a no-brainer for Labour

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18 December, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

Democracy depends not just on rules, but on confidence that those rules are enforced without fear or favour.

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Keir Starmer roasts Reform UK at PMQs over Russian bribes

Basit Mahmood
17 December, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

The Prime Minister’s comments caused much laughter across the Commons, with Farage and his deputy Richard Tice looking annoyed.

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Reform councillor poses with far-right Homeland Party member who claims ‘black people can’t be Scottish’

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17 December, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

“One of Reform’s leading representatives in Scotland is keeping company with members of the fascist Homeland Party.”

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Olivia Barber
17 December, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

“It strikes me as a lack of trust in how the council is being run”

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Olivia Barber
17 December, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

The Your Party co-founder says she won’t leave the prison until they allow an ambulance in

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Labour’s Employment Rights Bill passes through Parliament-Delivering biggest upgrade in workers’ rights in a generation

Basit Mahmood
17 December, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the development marked a “major victory for working people in every part of the country”.

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Reform council could implement ‘biggest council tax rise county has ever had’

Basit Mahmood
17 December, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

It’s been revealed that the county council has applied to government for permission to potentially increase council tax by up to 10%.

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Reform councillor faces calls to resign after sending just 2 emails in 6 months

Basit Mahmood
16 December, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

“It is extremely disappointing. It does no politician any good when the public are ignored.”

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Donald Trump claims Liz Truss as ‘voice of authority’ as part of his $10bn claim against BBC

Basit Mahmood
16 December, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

Someone should remind Trump that Truss has no credibility in the UK.

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Reform’s first elected councillor in Scotland left police after he was charged with criminal offences

Olivia Barber
16 December, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

The party would not say if they knew of the charges before they approved the ex-police officer as a candidate

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