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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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Steve Barclay rinsed for targeting doctors and nurses with anti-strike rules

Hannah Davenport
19 September, 2023

“Yet another desperate attempt from the Conservatives to distract from their dire record in government”

Nigel Farage
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Nigel Farage banking row: Regulator finds no evidence of bank account closures due to political views

Basit Mahmood
19 September, 2023

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says it has found no evidence showing banks have shut or denied accounts to customers based primarily on their political beliefs.

Liz Truss
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Labour Party demands Sunak blocks Liz Truss’s honours list

Basit Mahmood
19 September, 2023

‘This means that those who crashed the economy, who left millions to pay more for their mortgage and who undermined our economic institutions could receive an award.’

Mick Lynch
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Mick Lynch slams new government rail contract with Avanti as a ‘travesty’

Hannah Davenport
19 September, 2023

“Greedy rail privateers should have no place on our railways”

Children living in poverty
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89% of school staff say child poverty in their school has increased in the last two academic years, survey finds

Basit Mahmood
19 September, 2023

80% of school staff say providing universal free school meals to all school children would reduce child poverty in their school, according to a survey carried out by the Education Anti-Poverty Coalition.

Just Stop Oil protesters
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Students threaten civil disobedience across UK campuses over new oil and gas

Hannah Davenport
19 September, 2023

Climate activists warn ‘thousands of students’ will be arrested in November for civil resistance

Voting Ballot Box
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8 million people especially private renters and the young are not properly registered to vote, warns Electoral Commission

Basit Mahmood
18 September, 2023

The sheer number of people denied a right to vote thanks to an ‘outdated registration system’, would be equivalent in number to more than 100 UK Parliament constituencies.

Jeremy Hunt
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Ofcom says GB News broke impartiality rules after chancellor interviewed by Tory MPs

Basit Mahmood
18 September, 2023

‘Our investigation therefore concluded that GB News failed to represent and give due weight to an appropriately wide range of significant views’

Mark Carney
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Mark Carney demolishes Brexit and Liz Truss’ economic policies

Basit Mahmood
18 September, 2023

‘When Brexiteers tried to create Singapore on the Thames, the Truss government instead delivered Argentina on the Channel’

Liz Truss
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Liz Truss defends her disastrous mini-budget and says she was right all along

Basit Mahmood
18 September, 2023

It’s everyone else’s fault apparently…

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