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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (1 week ago)

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 (1 week ago)

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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London Ambulance
News

Number of people in London having to wait more than 12 hours in A&E jumps by 47% in a month

Basit Mahmood
11 November, 2022

When it comes to national figures, 43,792 people endured a 12-hour wait in A&E in October – up 34 per cent on the previous month.

Sunak PMQS
Opinion

Rishi Sunak proved again this week that he doesn’t understand child poverty

Basit Mahmood
11 November, 2022

56% of people in poverty in the UK are in a working family and 7 in 10 children in poverty are in a family where at least one parent works.

Daily Mail and Sun
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More right-wing news websites set to be launched by former editors of Sun and Mail Online

Basit Mahmood
10 November, 2022

Former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie plans on launching a new right-wing populist website in the New Year called the Daily Disclosure.

Nadine Dorries
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Nadine Dorries attacks Rishi Sunak over social care plans

Basit Mahmood
10 November, 2022

Reacting to the news that the policy could be delayed and even possibly shelved altogether, Dorries took to Twitter to condemn the move saying she was ‘very surprised’.

NHS strike
News

Nurses vote to stage strikes across the UK for the first time in their history

Basit Mahmood
10 November, 2022

“Anger has become action – our members are saying enough is enough.”

Sunak PMQS
News

Rishi Sunak humiliated at PMQs over Gavin Williamson appointment and failed windfall tax

Basit Mahmood
9 November, 2022

“He can’t even stand up to a cartoon bully with a pet spider”, so how can he stand up for the British people?”.

Gavin Williamson
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Tories slammed for hypocrisy after Gavin Williamson ‘bullying is never acceptable’ video comes back to haunt him

Basit Mahmood
9 November, 2022

Williamson quit the cabinet in disgrace yesterday, over allegations that he bullied MPs as well as civil servants. He denies any wrongdoing.

COP27
Opinion

How will Egypt’s ban on protest impact COP27?

Amelia Womack
9 November, 2022

‘Protest has always been an important element to the COP negotiations.’

Boris Johnson
News

Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list includes Paul Dacre and Tory donor who had to quit over shares selling scandal

Basit Mahmood
8 November, 2022

“I predicted a Lavender List of “dodgy donors and obsequious courtiers”.

Ed Miliband
News

Daily Mail ridiculed after claiming it was Ed Miliband who tanked the economy

Basit Mahmood
8 November, 2022

“When was Ed Miliband the Prime Minister???”

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