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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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Rishi Sunak at the dispatch box at PMQs
News

Rishi Sunak’s claim that Just Stop Oil ‘bankrolls the Labour Party’ is proven to be false

Basit Mahmood
13 February, 2023

Sunak made the claim at PMQs

Rachel Reeves
Opinion

Labour must use its growth mission to reshape Britain

Tom Collinge
13 February, 2023

‘The question of how we raise the funds for our ambitious plans will be absolutely critical to the success of a Starmer government.’

Lee Anderson
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Tory Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson slammed ‘over link to white supremacists’

Basit Mahmood
13 February, 2023

Anderson is facing further condemnation for his links to Nazi-supporting members of a scooter club.

Pontins

Daily Mail and Express report fake asylum seeker hotel costs

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 February, 2023

With a media that doesn’t hold back in printing anti-immigration stories designed to fan the flames of hatred, using the most inflated figures possible to report on asylum and refugee resettlement in the UK, comes as no surprise.

Tony Abbott

Government refuses to sack Australian trade advisor Tony Abbott for joining climate-sceptic think-tank

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 February, 2023

‘Talking tough on climate action while filling your Board of Trade with people like Abbott is a dismal signal to the world about Britain’s climate leadership.’

Right-Wing Watch

Can the Tories win the next general election?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 February, 2023

For a government limping along under the rule of its fifth prime minister in six years, drenched in sleaze and infighting, conventional wisdom says surely the Tories can’t survive the next general election. But then this is politics, and anything can happen.

Report finds Brexit failings are leading cause of small boats crisis

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 February, 2023

A new academic report identifies Brexit and other UK government failings as the underlying cause of the increase in people making the perilous journey across the English Channel.

A photo of coins on top of an article explaining that Energy companies are raising prices
News

Government urged to scrap 20 percent increase in energy bills

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 February, 2023

Money saving expert Martin Lewis has joined calls urging the government to postpone the planned April 1 hike.

Question time
News

Question Time audience member takes Tories apart over Lee Anderson appointment

Basit Mahmood
10 February, 2023

“I just find it absolutely astounding, actually, that you are sitting here and even legitimising this promotion.”

Canary wharf
Opinion

The growth of the finance industry is strangling the UK economy

Prem Sikka
10 February, 2023

‘In pursuit of the high returns in the shortest possible time, the finance industry has moved into the high street.’

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