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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
Today

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
Today

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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Nigel Farage announcing his mass deportation plan
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Nigel Farage’s weaponisation of women’s safety to further his anti-immigration stance is harmful to us all

Carenza Arnold
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‘To use women’s lives as a political prop while simultaneously advocating for politics that would harm them is hypocrisy at its ugliest.’

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Tory leader Kemi Badenoch proudly declares she’ll deport women and children

Basit Mahmood
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Despite Farage backtracking on that policy, Badenoch has doubled down in a bid to pander to Reform voters and the right-wing of her own party’s base.

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Councillor who made “white racism” claim defects to Reform UK

Olivia Barber
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She made an unsubstantiated claim about a rise in ‘racist attacks’ on white people and claimed asylum seekers get priority over Scots

flip flop farage
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28 August, 2025

‘Don’t believe a word he says.’

Nigel Farage announcing his mass deportation plan
Opinion

4 reasons Nigel Farage’s draconian mass deportation plan would not work

Olivia Barber
28 August, 2025

You only need to think back to the Tories’ failed Rwanda scheme to see just how unworkable these proposals are

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Homeless charity closes following funding dispute with Reform UK council

Basit Mahmood
28 August, 2025

Hundreds of homeless people face losing their accommodation in a town.

Brexit
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Majority of Britons say UK Economy has got worse since Brexit, new poll finds

Basit Mahmood
28 August, 2025

Whatever happened to the land of milk and honey promised by Brexiteers…

Mick Barton, Reform leader at Nottinghamshire County Council

Reform council leader boycotts local newspaper in ‘massive attack on local democracy’

Olivia Barber
28 August, 2025

Local Reform MP Lee Anderson has backed the boycott…

Ed Davey on BBC Breakfast

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Olivia Barber
28 August, 2025

Priti Patel tried to attack the Lib Dem leader’s decision but it backfired spectacularly

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