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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

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

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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University Vice Chancellor defends 350k+ salary by saying they run ‘big businesses’

Hannah Davenport
18 August, 2023

“Can you imagine any other place in which a customer would pay that much money and be treated this badly?”

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Tories make massive campaign mess-up which leaves MPs a ‘laughing stock’

Basit Mahmood
18 August, 2023

In one case, leaflets intended for one constituency ended up in another country 100 miles away.

Doctors strike over pay NHS
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Tory MP slammed for accusing English junior doctors of ‘politicising their pay’

Hannah Davenport
18 August, 2023

Tory MP accused of making ‘totally false’ claims over pay offer to junior doctors in England

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Keir Starmer joins trade unions in call for bank holiday if Lionesses win the World Cup

Hannah Davenport
17 August, 2023

Bank holidays in the UK are fewer than in most of Europe

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Climate change a growing top concern for voters, new polling finds

Hannah Davenport
17 August, 2023

Concern for the environment doubled on last month in one poll

Keir Starmer
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Why Keir Starmer is absolutely right to prioritise ‘smashing the class ceiling’

Basit Mahmood
17 August, 2023

Class remains a pertinent force in British politics, determining the life chances of millions and it casts a far longer shadow than many of us like to believe or admit.

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Rishi Sunak rules out Brexit-style referendum on net zero amid bitter Tory feud

Basit Mahmood
17 August, 2023

It remains to be seen whether helicopter enthusiast Sunak, who has previously given into pressure from Tory rebels, will stand firm in his commitment to net zero.

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Rishi Sunak slammed for saying pay rises should be a ‘reward for productivity’

Hannah Davenport
17 August, 2023

As MPs have seen their salaries rise by 30% since 2010

News

Underfunding and staff shortages risk undermining UK’s net zero target, say workers

Hannah Davenport
17 August, 2023

“We can’t solve environmental problems or net zero unless we have people to do the work”

NHS worker conditions
News

Tories roasted after pledging just 900 new NHS beds after cutting 12,000 since 2010

Basit Mahmood
17 August, 2023

“The elephant in the room is who will staff these additional beds? Nursing staff are already spread too thinly over too many patients.”

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