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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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Basit Mahmood
4 October, 2022

“People know that when their bills arrive, they can either cut their consumption or they can get a higher salary, higher wages, go out there and get that new job.”

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In an interview with Left Foot Forward, Womack said, “I will never shy away from ensuring that I’m putting my experience in to do the best thing for the party”

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Nadine Dorries suggests Liz Truss should call a general election.

Basit Mahmood
3 October, 2022

“If Liz wants a whole new mandate, she must take to the country.”

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Liz Truss dishes out a peerage and trade minister job to multi-millionaire Tory donor who is Jacob Rees-Mogg’s business partner

Basit Mahmood
3 October, 2022

“Dominic Johnson CBE was appointed a minister of state jointly in the Department for International Trade and the Cabinet Office on 2 October 2022.”

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Sarah Olney MP: The country is facing a homelessness emergency

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‘The government must do more to protect those who need it, such as the 1.5 million who are on low-incomes and on pension credit.’

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Basit Mahmood
3 October, 2022

“Just LOOK how they changed their front page between edition”

Meet the Councillors who have defected to the Green Party

Chris Jarvis
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Left Foot Forward speaks exclusively to three current and former Councillors who defected to the Greens

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Enough is Enough gets formal backing of the Green Party

Chris Jarvis
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The Greens are the first party to formally support the campaign

A ‘British blowout’: How Europe has reacted to the UK’s economic crisis and the plummeting pound

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 October, 2022

While the prime minister seemed lost for words as she faced her first round of interviews following the economic fallout of the mini budget, international reaction to the turmoil has been much less coy.

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Amelia Womack celebrates Green Party electoral success in farewell speech at Green Party conference

Chris Jarvis
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‘In just a few years, we have gone from a small party with a few thousand members to a mass movement of tens of thousands’

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