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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

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
Yesterday

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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Latest Posts

UK tax authority admits it’s clueless about how much tax is being evaded through offshore assets

Basit Mahmood
30 May, 2022

‘UK residents had £850bn in financial accounts overseas — of which £570bn was based in tax havens — in 2019, the latest year HMRC has released statistics for.’

Local councils and net zero

Government ‘on the cusp’ of approving controversial coal mine in Cumbria

Thomas Perrett
30 May, 2022

The mine, if its development continues, will be the latest in a series of misguided policies.

Sue Gray report

Civil servants ‘lobbied Sue Gray to remove names’ from Partygate report

Basit Mahmood
30 May, 2022

It is alleged that initially up to 30 names had been scheduled to be featured in the report, however in the end the report included just 15.

The Telegraph’s ‘Brexit benefits’ article ripped apart by readers

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
29 May, 2022

‘It is unwise to write such a vague and superficial article on a key matter of government policy,’ wrote one reader.

A photo of Rishi Sunak leaving Downing Street

‘Too little, too late’: Frustration grows that Sunak’s measures were not introduced sooner

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
29 May, 2022

Following months of dithering and delay, the chancellor has finally acted to support families with the cost-of-living crisis. But for some, the measures are too little, too late.

Daily Mail

Pay strikes at ink manufacturer likely to disrupt printing of Daily Mail

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
28 May, 2022

Industrial action over an ‘insulting’ 3% pay offer for employees at Sun Chemical is set to impact production of the right-wing newspaper.

Solidarity with cleaners

Sue Gray’s findings spark flood of support for cleaners, security staff and low-paid workers

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
28 May, 2022

Following exposure of ‘repugnant’ treatment of the lowest-paid staff at No 10, there has been an outpouring of solidarity towards cleaners and security staff across the UK.

Nadine Dorries

Channel 4 gives the perfect response to Nadine Dorries over privatisation claims

Basit Mahmood
27 May, 2022

“C4 is in excellent financial health & does not want or need to raise outside capital to fund its future plans.”

Cost of living crisis

Prof Prem Sikka: Rishi Sunak’s measures fail to address the systemic factors behind the cost-of-living crisis

Prem Sikka
27 May, 2022

‘The government has failed to address the systemic factors behind the cost-of-living crisis. ‘

bbc question time

BBC Question Time audience slams timing of Rishi Sunak’s £400 energy bill discount

Basit Mahmood
27 May, 2022

If the Sue Gray report hadn’t had come out we wouldn’t be getting this windfall tax.

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