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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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Voting Ballot Box

Labour conference votes overwhelmingly to replace FPTP with PR

Basit Mahmood
26 September, 2022

Although the party leadership does not approve the change, the conference has backed a motion which supports a “fairer proportional electoral system.”

Rachel Reeves

5 key takeaways from Rachel Reeves’s speech, including a hike to the minimum wage

Basit Mahmood
26 September, 2022

‘The last Labour government delivered Britain’s first ever national minimum wage. The next Labour government will introduce a genuine living wage.’

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

Basit Mahmood
26 September, 2022

A round of progressive news…

Louise Haigh: “Labour in power will bring our railways back into public ownership.”

Basit Mahmood
26 September, 2022

‘We believe in a public transport system where power is in the hands of the public.’

Voting Ballot Box

Labour4PR rally: ‘This is about justice in our political system’

Basit Mahmood
25 September, 2022

“PR creates a culture of much better decision making and working across parties in order to improve quality of decisions made.”

Dhesi

Interview: Tan Dhesi urges government to do more to guard against imported toxic ideologies following violent unrest in Leicester

Basit Mahmood
25 September, 2022

“We have to constantly work to keep community cohesion because there are forces at play who do not want that to happen.”

News

Stamp duty cut slammed for ‘propping up house prices’ and benefiting the wealthier

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
25 September, 2022

“People don’t need help to move home. They need help to keep and heat the one they have.”

Angela Rayner

Angela Rayner tells Labour conference the party will ‘oversee the biggest wave of insourcing in a generation’

Basit Mahmood
25 September, 2022

‘The Tories have become too dependent on handing away our public services on the cheap’

Climate campaigners threaten legal action over lifting of fracking ban

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
25 September, 2022

Greenpeace has hit out at the government’s actions, condemning them as “unlawful.” Meanwhile, Scotland confirms its policy on fracking is not changing.

Landfill

New campaign aims to raise awareness of clothing deprivation

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
24 September, 2022

The initiative is aimed at exposing clothing poverty and waste, to provide adequate clothing for all, and bring about change in law around the right to clothing.

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