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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (6 days 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 (6 days 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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Calls for Paul Dacre’s peerage to be delayed

Basit Mahmood
10 October, 2022

“I don’t think that man should be allowed anywhere near the House of Lords. He has already poisoned the well of British politics quite enough.”

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GB News loses half its value after Discovery sells up

Basit Mahmood
10 October, 2022

It hasn’t gone quite as planned for the channel which promised to be ‘boldly different’.

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Gordon Brown warns of ‘national uprising’ if benefits are cut

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The former prime minister has warned of nationwide uprising if the government fails to increase benefits in line with inflation.

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Union warns of further poverty if benefits aren’t brought in line with inflation

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
9 October, 2022

‘Attempting to balance the books on the backs of the poorest in society is fundamentally wrong at any time and it will be especially devastating for many workers in the midst of a cost of living crisis.’

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Full Fact: Liz Truss was not the first prime minister to attend a comprehensive school

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
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The fact checkers concluded that the prime minister’s claim was incorrect.

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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
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Tory minister pushes to downgrade importance of climate change in trade deals

Basit Mahmood
7 October, 2022

Conor Burns said he had been fighting back in his first two weeks at the Department for International Trade against plans ‘to push net-zero and the environment to the top of every single trade agreement as a sort of policy objective’.

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Why we should all be worried about the government’s dangerous deregulation plan

Prem Sikka
7 October, 2022

There is little appreciation that rights and protections embodied in regulation are the outcome of generations of struggles to safeguards lives, homes, jobs, savings, property rights, dignity, and freedom from discrimination.

Latest polling shows Tories would be left with just 85 seats

Basit Mahmood
7 October, 2022

Labour would have a majority of 292 seats

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Daily Mail publisher being sued over alleged phone-tapping, breaches of privacy and accessing bank accounts

Basit Mahmood
7 October, 2022

Law firm Hamlins claimed the alleged crimes “represent the tip of the iceberg – and that many other innocent people remain unknowing victims of similar terrible and reprehensible covert acts”.

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