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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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Basit Mahmood
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“Many of my colleagues will be thinking ‘Do I want to do much more of this? Do I want to go down to Electoral defeat?”

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Basit Mahmood
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“Is that the best you can do, cheese and fish fingers?”

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Basit Mahmood
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Basit Mahmood
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Basit Mahmood
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“There was a study done by the Bank of International Settlements recently about the risk of wage induced inflation across Western economies and they said wages right now represent  either no risk or actually negative figures”

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Basit Mahmood
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“What he’s putting in front of our members no union, no worker would accept.”

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“So you only have aspiration if you went to private school eh?”

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