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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.

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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.

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Latest Posts

Right-Wing Watch

Left or right – who could unite first?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
27 September, 2025

While speculation about a right-wing pact to ensure that the Tories or Reform can win power is rampant, there’s little mention of any sort of progressive pact to save us from such a fate.

News

Huge crowd gathers for Make Them Pay rally in London

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
27 September, 2025

“Our story is more powerful than the hatred we saw here last week. Our story places the blame with the billionaires, and we need to tell it loud and clear.”

Canary Wharf

If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership

Prem Sikka
26 September, 2025

Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

Billy Bragg

Billy Bragg mocks Nigel Farage’s hopes of being PM on BBC Question Time

Basit Mahmood
26 September, 2025

‘To demonise, particularly the Muslims, this is the sort of thing why we worry about Reform.’

Prime minister Keir Starmer giving a speech on Gaza

Keir Starmer says Donald Trump’s claim Sadiq Khan wants to bring in Sharia Law is ‘nonsense’

Basit Mahmood
26 September, 2025

The Prime Minister has called Trump’s comments ‘nonsense’.

Andy Burnham

Cabinet minister dismisses Burnham leadership bid with brutal slapdown

Basit Mahmood
25 September, 2025

‘Our job now is to talk to the country, not to ourselves, about how we’re going to change the things that they care about.’

Keir Starmer speaking at Labour Conference

Understanding Labour’s Leadership Election Rules

Richard Johnson
25 September, 2025

The source of this confusion is unclear, but it appears to be a mix of a few factors.

Keir Starmer and Bridget Philipson

Lift two-child benefit cap to tackle poverty, ministers to recommend to Starmer

Basit Mahmood
25 September, 2025

The recommendations from the child poverty taskforce are expected before the autumn budget on November 26, although it has been repeatedly delayed.

Sadiq Khan

Sadiq Khan rips into Trump after President’s Islamophobic comments: ‘He Is Racist, Sexist and Islamophobic’

Basit Mahmood
24 September, 2025

Speaking to Sky News, Khan said he appeared to be living rent free in Trump’s head.

Ed Davey's final speech at conference 2025
News

Five things we learned at Lib Dem conference

Olivia Barber
24 September, 2025

The Lib Dems positioned themselves as the antidote to Reform’s toxic populism and Labour’s overcautiousness

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