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Tories ridiculed for proposing to ban four day week

Chris Jarvis
Today

“Yet again we witness the political gymnastics of this outdated and out of touch Conservative Party descend into a collective swoon over the terrifying prospect of a council functioning better whilst saving the tax-payer money.”

A group of people on a stage with a sign reading four day week

New petition calls for referendum on public ownership of water

Chris Jarvis
Today

Feargal Sharkey is backing the petition

WASP campaigners who have launched the petition for a referendum for public ownership of water

Labour’s achievements this week: Lifting 450,000 children out of poverty and delivering workers’ rights

Basit Mahmood
Today

Change doesn’t happen overnight, yet slowly and surely, this government is delivering after 14 years of Tory austerity

Keir Starmer

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housing UK
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Why Labour’s policy to increase homeownership through a new mortgage guarantee scheme will not work

Chris Worrall
4 January, 2023

Only policy targeting reductions in income inequality will help first-time buyers and improve homeownership levels

London Ambulance
News

A damning chart which shows just why the NHS is in crisis

Basit Mahmood
4 January, 2023

A number of trusts have announced critical incidents in recent days

Paul Nowak
News

TUC’s Paul Nowak takes apart government’s false claims about unions and public sector strikes

Basit Mahmood
4 January, 2023

‘The average nurse is £4,000 a year worse off than If their pay would’ve risen by the rate of inflation since 2008.’

A photo of London's skyline
News

UK faces deepest and longest recession in G7, say economists, with ‘Brexit and incompetence of ministers’ blamed

Basit Mahmood
3 January, 2023

‘The UK was in a ‘structural hole, not a cyclical downturn’

Brendan Clarke-Smith
News

Tory MP slammed after telling firefighters using foodbanks to ‘learn how to budget’

Basit Mahmood
3 January, 2023

“Then on your much higher MP wage, why are you needing to claim expenses and eat taxpayer subsidised food? Just budget.”

Mick Lynch
News

RMT’s Mick Lynch slams Tory minister for lying and insists government torpedoed a deal to prevent rail strikes

Basit Mahmood
3 January, 2023

Lynch claimed that ministers were “undermining efforts to get a settlement” and had sunk an agreement in December.

A photo of an NHS protest with the Left Foot Forward logo in the top right corner

Editor’s note: Thank you from the team at LFF and happy holidays!

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2022

A massive thank you to our readers and supporters!

Unite balloons being flown at a TUC march
News

A full list of upcoming strike dates

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2022

We take a look at the upcoming list of strike dates.

Chessum
Opinion

Book Review: This Is Only the Beginning: The Making of a New Left, From Anti-Austerity to the Fall of Corbyn by Michael Chessum

David Renton
23 December, 2022

‘The left will face its chance again, but not soon, and until then we have not yet built up the institutions or the common strategies which would entitle us to govern.’

Parliament
Opinion

A group of neo-liberal elites have captured the British state

Prem Sikka
23 December, 2022

Taming the elites is a necessary condition for transformation of the British economy, but no political party is willing to shackle the power of the elites.

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