Reform UK candidate says women should stay at home and look after the kids instead of going to work
So much for Farage’s ‘beefed up’ vetting of candidates, clearly people with disgraceful and bigoted views are still being let through.
Green MP calls on Keir Starmer to resign over Peter Mandelson scandal in fiery PMQs speech
‘Does the prime minister not recognise that the best thing he can do to restore trust […] is to take true responsibility and resign?’
Farage told to act over Reform local election candidates with racist, sexist and homophobic views
Reform continues to allow candidates with “grotesque” views to stand for the party
Latest Posts
UK faces deepest and longest recession in G7, say economists, with ‘Brexit and incompetence of ministers’ blamed
‘The UK was in a ‘structural hole, not a cyclical downturn’
Tory MP slammed after telling firefighters using foodbanks to ‘learn how to budget’
“Then on your much higher MP wage, why are you needing to claim expenses and eat taxpayer subsidised food? Just budget.”
RMT’s Mick Lynch slams Tory minister for lying and insists government torpedoed a deal to prevent rail strikes
Lynch claimed that ministers were “undermining efforts to get a settlement” and had sunk an agreement in December.
Editor’s note: Thank you from the team at LFF and happy holidays!
A massive thank you to our readers and supporters!
A full list of upcoming strike dates
We take a look at the upcoming list of strike dates.
Book Review: This Is Only the Beginning: The Making of a New Left, From Anti-Austerity to the Fall of Corbyn by Michael Chessum
‘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.’
A group of neo-liberal elites have captured the British state
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.
Rishi Sunak slammed for appointing old-Etonian banker and Tory donor as new ethics adviser
“The social distance between us – an old Etonian, in 21st century?”
Good Law Project reveals the names of those who referred Covid testing firms into the “VIP” lane
Tory MP Liam Fox referred the firm Surescreen Diagnostics to Matt Hancock, and they landed a £500 million contract. Surescreen subsequently donated £20,000 to Liam Fox.
More people blame the Government than unions for wave of strikes, poll shows
The poll, carried out by Opinium on behalf of the Compassion in Politics think tank and reported in the Mirror, found that 41% of those surveyed believe the Tories are responsible, 35% say unions