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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (5 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 (5 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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23 August, 2023

He said he wouldn’t ‘turn away from’ contesting the leadership ‘if a path opens up in time’.

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Paul Nowak: Here’s how we can change our tax system to ensure the rich pay a fairer share

Paul Nowak
22 August, 2023

‘Those earning the most in our society should be paying a fairer share.’

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Basit Mahmood
22 August, 2023

“She hasn’t fully delivered, we’ve got the Illegal Migration Act through now, and need gentler hands.”

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Outrage as fat cat pay soars by 16% and FTSE bosses bag £500k pay rise

Basit Mahmood
22 August, 2023

‘CEOs are being highly rewarded for overseeing greedflation’

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News

FTSE 100 bosses given average pay rise of £500,000, while ordinary workers are told to show restraint

Basit Mahmood
22 August, 2023

‘Median CEO pay is now 118 times that of the median UK full-time worker, compared to 108 times in 2021 and 79 times in 2020.’

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Rishi Sunak forced to accept that he might not ‘stop the boats’ by the election

Basit Mahmood
21 August, 2023

Sunak has accepted that he may not be able to stop the small boat crossings by the next general election, citing the ‘complexity of the issue’.

Nadine Dorries
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A petition demanding Nadine Dorries finally quits hits over 80,000

Basit Mahmood
21 August, 2023

‘Your constituents, local council, the Prime Minister and now the public have all had enough’

COP26
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How the Labour Party can include the working classes in a just climate transition

Nick Harvey
21 August, 2023

‘Labour can demonstrate that there is another way, and make a just transition a central plank of its environmental policy platform’

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55% of voters say they could change their vote before the election, showing no room for complacency

Basit Mahmood
21 August, 2023

Only 45% say they have completely settled on who to vote for.

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State of Child Poverty report shows ‘catastrophic’ impact of cost-of-living crisis on families

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 August, 2023

The government is being urged to act immediately to support struggling families by lifting the two-child Universal Credit limit and introducing an Essentials Guarantee.

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