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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (4 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 (4 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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Basit Mahmood
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Basit Mahmood
27 September, 2023

In February 2020, Hall liked a tweet depicting Enoch Powell with the words “It’s never too late to get London back”.

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Hannah Davenport
27 September, 2023

Academics on the picket line tell LFF why they’re on strike

Laurence Fox
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Basit Mahmood
27 September, 2023

Journalist Ava Evans said Fox’s comments made her feel sick

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Longtime Tory donor says that the Tories don’t deserve to win the next election

Basit Mahmood
27 September, 2023

“Does a Party like the Conservatives, with what they have done in the last three years, deserve to get back [in power], I don’t think so.

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Joe Biden backs 40% pay rise for striking autoworkers

Hannah Davenport
27 September, 2023

Joe Biden tells strikers “you deserve a hell of a lot more than you’re getting paid now”

Ed Davey speaking at Lib Dem Conference
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These are big takeaways from the Liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth

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Hannah Davenport
26 September, 2023

Striking autoworkers received solidarity from the US President

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