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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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MUST WATCH: Ed Miliband eviscerates Grant Shapps and ‘Tory dinosaurs’ over their flip-flopping on onshore wind farms

Basit Mahmood
30 November, 2022

He said: “Opposing onshore wind waves the white flag on our energy security and raises bills for families.”

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Tory party members don’t support the government’s economic policy

Basit Mahmood
30 November, 2022

‘This is a bleak finding for Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt.’

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Daily Mail roasted for making ‘private school fees the biggest issue of the day’ during cost of living crisis

Basit Mahmood
29 November, 2022

The paper seems to have forgotten that Tory MP Michael Gove, also supported removing the charitable status of private schools.

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Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week

Basit Mahmood
29 November, 2022

A roundup of news from progressive publications…

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Former GB News ‘anti-woke’ boss is hired as the BBC’s director of news programmes

Basit Mahmood
29 November, 2022

The former editorial director and director of news and programmes at GB News, John McAndrew, has been hired as the BBC’s director of News Programmes.

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Diane Abbott MP: This must be the time for a major change in housing policy

Diane Abbott
29 November, 2022

My constituency office which (like other MPs) deals with local people’s concerns, has been inundated with cases of mould in flats and houses, many of them leading to ill-health.

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A full list of the Tory MPs quitting before the next election

Basit Mahmood
28 November, 2022

The government is reported to be ‘bracing itself for an exodus of MPs’, who would rather step down than campaign in seats that they believe they are certain to lose.

Eton
Opinion

Why the Labour Party is absolutely right to want to remove the charitable status of private schools

Basit Mahmood
28 November, 2022

Eton received £3.3 million of rental income from its real estate portfolio and £5.8 million from selling commercial property. Charity?

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International unions vote P&O’s Peter Hebblethwaite Worst Boss In The World

Tony Burke
28 November, 2022

‘Hebblethwaite topped the poll which included Jeff Bezos’

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Billionaire Tory donor tells Rishi Sunak to admit that the public were lied to over Brexit

Basit Mahmood
28 November, 2022

Guy Hands has said that Rishi Sunak must admit that the Brexit campaign was full of lies, if the party wants his support again.

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