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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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Latest Posts

News

Rishi Sunak is now polling worse than Liz Truss among key voters, analysis finds

Basit Mahmood
4 December, 2023

The latest dire polling figures for Sunak are likely to lead to yet further pressure on the Prime Minister who is facing a growing revolt among the right-wing of his party following the sacking of Suella Braverman.

Right-Wing Watch

Could Nigel Farage become Tory leader?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
3 December, 2023

Is it leadership of the Tory Party that Farage is setting his sights on, and, if so, would they have him? Or is he planning on creating havoc among the Reform Party?

Tories likely to win just 120 seats in next General Election – research suggests

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 December, 2023

The Conservatives are on course for their worst showing in modern electoral history, according to the latest predictions.

News

Government’s ‘Operation Maximise’ raises fears over asylum seekers’ mental health and safety

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 December, 2023

‘People should be accommodated in communities where they can be welcomed, not warehoused in hotels.’

Opinion

Prem Sikka: How the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is the government’s latest erosion of hard-won rights

Prem Sikka
1 December, 2023

‘The Bill only targets the less well-off. There is no equivalent surveillance of legislators who accept payments to advance the interests of their corporate paymasters.’

Rishi Sunak
News

‘This is what ‘climate leadership’ looks like’: Sunak and Cameron blasted for taking private jets to COP28

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 December, 2023

‘Members of a super-rich elite who are super-heating the planet.’

Esther McVey
News

Esther McVey mocked for trying to explain what ‘Minister for Common Sense’ is on Question Time

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 December, 2023

‘Is the whole common sense thing inaccurate then?’

Housing
Opinion

To increase the number of home-owners we must abolish the leasehold system

Dermot Mckibbin
30 November, 2023

All sections of the Labour Party need to unite around the need for leasehold reform if they wish to win the forthcoming general election

Brexit and EU
News

Bombshell poll shows number of Brits who believe Brexit has gone very well hits new low

Basit Mahmood
30 November, 2023

A new poll has shown the sheer scale of dissatisfaction with Brexit

Von Der Leyen
News

Britain is on ‘a clear direction of travel’ to rejoin the EU, says Ursula Von Der Leyen

Basit Mahmood
30 November, 2023

Von Der Leyen admitted that European leaders had “goofed up” over the departure of Britain from the bloc and suggested the younger generation could “fix” it.

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