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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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Left Foot Forward is hiring a trade union reporter

Basit Mahmood
6 October, 2022

Got a track record of hard-hitting journalism? Then join the LFF team

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Petition demanding an early general election hits more than 500,000 signatures

Basit Mahmood
6 October, 2022

The petition, which calls for an ‘immediate general election to end the chaos of the current government’ has, as of today, received 557,976 signatures.

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Nadine Dorries fears Liz Truss is becoming too right wing

Basit Mahmood
6 October, 2022

You know things are bad when even Dorries is telling her leader to stop “lurching to the right”.

Liz Truss

Our dangerously ideological new government is wasting no time in dismantling the UK as we knew it

Anne Miller
6 October, 2022

We are seeing a dangerous attack on the system of rights, rules and regulations that constrain the worst excesses of rapacious capitalism.

Radical Roundup

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1, October 2022

Basit Mahmood
5 October, 2022

The news you didn’t see this week…

More than 330,000 excess deaths in Great Britain linked to austerity, study finds

Basit Mahmood
5 October, 2022

‘Mortality rates across the UK stopped improving in the early 2010s, largely attributable to UK Government’s ‘austerity’ policies.’

Braverman

Suella Braverman slammed after saying it’s her ‘dream’ and ‘obsession’ to see asylum seeker flight to Rwanda

Basit Mahmood
5 October, 2022

“Suella Braverman is now perilously close to making Priti Patel look like the second most callous & ignorant Home Secretary in living memory.”

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Kwasi Kwarteng blames ‘pressure of Queen’s death’ for his disastrous mini-budget

Basit Mahmood
4 October, 2022

Yet another excuse…

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

Basit Mahmood
4 October, 2022

A roundup of progressive news…

Andrea Jenkyns

Tory education minister Andrea Jenkyns called out for peddling fake news and stoking culture wars

Basit Mahmood
4 October, 2022

There are currently no British universities offering a degree in Harry Potter studies.

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