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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 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 (2 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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John McDonnell MP: ‘Rwanda deportation scheme is an appalling act of inhumanity’

Basit Mahmood
8 December, 2023

Figures show that the cost of the scheme has spiralled to £290 million, despite the fact that not a single flight has taken off to the east African country.

Rwanda policy
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Cost of Rwanda scheme spirals to £290m despite no deportation flights taking off

Basit Mahmood
8 December, 2023

‘The Tories’ have wasted an astronomical £290 million of taxpayers’ money on a failing scheme which hasn’t sent a single asylum seeker to Rwanda.’

Carol Vorderman
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Carol Vorderman to team up with Good Law Project to expose crony Covid contracts

Basit Mahmood
7 December, 2023

“Follow us as we open up THE VIP FILES”.

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Yet more bus services will be coming back into public ownership

Basit Mahmood
7 December, 2023

A recent poll for LFF found that 67% of the public want to see buses in public ownership.

Suella Braverman
News

Nick Robinson praised for brutal takedown of Suella Braverman

Basit Mahmood
7 December, 2023

“Isn’t the truth you’re a headline-grabber who does it by spreading poison, even within your own party?”

Palestine demo
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UK workers ramp up pressure on Big Tech to end Israeli military contract

Hannah Davenport
6 December, 2023

Tech workers launch UK campaign and mass call to action against company complicity with Israeli government

Rishi Sunak in Aberdeen
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More Tory MPs send in letters of no confidence in Rishi Sunak ahead of Suella Braverman’s personal statement

Basit Mahmood
6 December, 2023

“I can’t believe they want a fourth PM in this parliament.  But we live in weird bonkers times”.

Tom Bradby
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ITV presenter’s scathing summary of UK’s economy goes viral

Basit Mahmood
6 December, 2023

“Picture a country going backwards, where workers haven’t had a decent pay rise in 15 years, public services are on the verge of collapse, and the gap between rich and poor grows year on year”

Aslef train drivers union strikes
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Train drivers’ union slams Tory ‘hypocrisy’ after Christmas lunch jibe

Hannah Davenport
6 December, 2023

“Stop pretending you actually care about workers.”

Children living in poverty
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Shocking chart shames Britain on child poverty record

Basit Mahmood
6 December, 2023

he report compiled by UNICEF compared relative income poverty rates, which means the proportion of people who fall below a threshold relative to the income of the average person in the population.

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