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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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Opinion

Olivia Blake MP: The Financial Services and Markets Bill poses a major threat to decarbonisation efforts

Olivia Blake
6 December, 2022

The Financial Services and Markets Bill has presented us with more of the same Conservative agenda – deregulation, and lip service to climate goals.

Mick Lynch
News

Mick Lynch savages GB News and Nigel Farage

Basit Mahmood
6 December, 2022

“They’re not my favourites. They’re a bunch of right-wing bigots, as far as I can see.”

Nigel Farage presenting on GB News
News

Nigel Farage’s claim about London and Manchester being ‘minority white cities’ is proven to be false

Basit Mahmood
5 December, 2022

In London, while 37% of people identified as “White English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British”, 53.8% of people identified as white in total.

Opinion

Privatisation has destroyed the social care sector

Prem Sikka
5 December, 2022

‘A crisis is social care has been created by underfunding’.

Zahawi
News

Tory chair Nadhim Zahawi slammed for ludicrous claim that striking nurses are playing into hands of Vladimir Putin

Basit Mahmood
5 December, 2022

“Personally I think Tory Ministers accepting donations from Oligarchs plays into Putin’s hands more.”

News

Keir Starmer confirms Labour will abolish the House of Lords and replace it with an elected chamber

Basit Mahmood
5 December, 2022

“The House of Lords is indefensible, anybody who looks at the House of Lords would struggle to say that it should be kept”

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Water bosses blame government inaction for sewage crisis as calls to renationalise water industry grow

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
4 December, 2022

‘It is a bleak day for the government when even the water companies are blaming their inaction for the sewage crisis.’

child poverty
News

More than half of state school teachers report surge in pupil hunger

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
4 December, 2022

‘It’s a scandal that in one of the world’s richest countries growing numbers of children are going without basics such as food and warm clothing.’

class pay gap

Flooring factory employees in Manchester secure large pay rise

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
3 December, 2022

Following a series of strikes over pay that started in early September, workers at Polyflor Ltd., a vinyl flooring manufacturer, have accepted a pay rise offer of 9 percent.

Right-Wing Watch

How Brexit has been an unmitigated disaster for the Tories (and the country)

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
3 December, 2022

As turmoil within the Tory party festers, at the helm of the infighting is Brexit.

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