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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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Majority of voters including Tories want key utilities such as water and rail to be nationalised, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
16 August, 2023

Among Tory voters, 57% back the Government to run utilities and 29% prefer the private sector.

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Brexit disaster: New poll puts support to Rejoin at +60%

Basit Mahmood
16 August, 2023

Omnisis also asked voters if Britain was right or wrong to leave the EU, with 59% saying we were wrong to leave versus 41% saying we were right.

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Tory MP roasted by Nick Robinson for trying to claim UK economy is in great shape

Basit Mahmood
16 August, 2023

‘If you’re flat on your back it’s quite easy to grow faster.’

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Trade unions warn workers will continue to struggle as inflation falls

Basit Mahmood
16 August, 2023

“Until policy-makers stop attacking wages and take on the corporate profiteers there will be no end to this cost-of-living crisis.”

News

Keir Starmer pledges to ‘smash the class ceiling’

Basit Mahmood
15 August, 2023

“There may have been times in the recent past where Labour was afraid to speak the language of class at all – but not my Labour Party.”

News

15-year wage stagnation has left average earnings £230 a week lower than their pre-financial crisis trend

Basit Mahmood
15 August, 2023

The good news of today doesn’t make up for 15 years of unprecedented wage stagnation.

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‘Modest’ wealth tax on richest 0.3% could raise more than £10bn for public services, says TUC

Basit Mahmood
15 August, 2023

The trade union body has set out options for taxing the small number of individuals with wealth over £3 million, £5 million and £10 million

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Over a third of England’s homes will be at high risk of overheating as temperatures reach new extremes, think tank warns

Basit Mahmood
15 August, 2023

The report also warns that when it comes to work, older workers are a particular risk of heat stress

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Number of ethnic minority workers in insecure jobs rises by 132% since 2011

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2023

BME workers account for two thirds of the growth of insecure workers in this period – despite BME workers making up just 14% of the overall workforce. 

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Chart sums up perfectly just how bad Britain’s economy is under the Tories

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2023

It comes as a leading economic think tank warned that the UK is on course to experience five years of “lost” economic growth and is at risk of a recession next year.

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