Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate

Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
  • Home
  • Donate
  • Sign up
  • Right-Wing Watch
  • Reform Watch
  • Columnists
  • About
    • About LFF
    • Write for LFF
    • Advertise with LFF
    • Our complaints policy
    • Privacy
  1. Trending
  2. Labour
  3. Brexit
  4. Boris Johnson
  5. NHS

Thank you for supporting independent media

We’re so grateful for your donation and will make sure your money goes as far as possible

Spread the word about us:

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter
By clicking 'Sign me up' you confirm that you have read and agree to our privacy policy.

From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
Today

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.

A photo of an NHS protest with the Left Foot Forward logo in the top right corner

LFF is closed over the Christmas holidays

Basit Mahmood
Today

We will be returning on Monday 5th January with more hard-hitting news and comment, written by and for the UK left.

Left Foot Forward

Latest Posts

Ellie Chowns Green MP
News

Ellie Chowns MP on the Green Party leadership contest, the mood among the Greens and next year’s elections

Chris Jarvis
5 October, 2025

“The party’s going from strength to strength”

News

‘Go woke, don’t go broke’: Study finds progressive films aren’t tanking at the box office

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 October, 2025

If we had a pound for every time the phrase “go woke, go broke” appeared in right-wing media…

Right-Wing Media Watch – Mail slammed for ‘racism’ hypocrisy, as BBC and Sky hand Farage free pass

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 October, 2025

The remarks were quickly twisted into yet another outrage cycle by the right-wing press.

Zoe Garbett speaking at a rally
News

Interview: Zoë Garbett is seeking to be the first ever directly elected Green Party mayor

Chris Jarvis
5 October, 2025

“I feel like politics in Hackney has become quite disconnected from residents”

Owen Jones
News

Owen Jones: The Greens can become a mass party of the left under Zack Polanski’s leadership

Chris Jarvis
5 October, 2025

“There’s a sense that the Greens seem to think that this is their time”

Green Party members with Palestine Solidarity Campaign Director Ben Jamal at a protest for Gaza in Bournemouth
News

Ben Jamal: The Green Party is setting an example for how political parties should be responding to Gaza genocide

Chris Jarvis
5 October, 2025

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign director praised Zack Polanski’s leadership

News

New environment secretary urged to act on access to countryside

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 October, 2025

Britain’s oldest national conservation charity is calling on Emma Reynolds to prioritise legislation for wider and fairer access to nature.

Green Party MP Sian Berry speaking in parliament
News

Sian Berry MP reveals her proudest achievement since entering parliament

Chris Jarvis
4 October, 2025

Green MP Sian Berry spoke to Left Foot Forward at her party’s conference

EU flags
News

Forget the populist EU doom-mongering, Europeans are overwhelmingly satisfied with EU membership

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
4 October, 2025

The findings stand in contrast to the apocalyptic tone taken by figures like Trump and Farage, who, following the Brexit vote in 2016, triumphantly predicted the EU’s imminent collapse and labelled it a “dead” project.

Right-Wing Watch

How Labour best fights off Reform – stick with McSweeney or cut him loose?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
4 October, 2025

‘Shaking up the adviser team’ is a well-known political tactic, although how much good it actually does is contested. An excess of advisers is yet another Thatcher legacy we could probably do without but will doubtless have to continue to live with.

  • ← Older posts
  • Newer posts →
By clicking 'Sign me up' you confirm that you have read and agree to our privacy policy.