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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

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LFF is closed over the Christmas holidays

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

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What you can do to help Afghan refugees

Lauren Crosby Medlicott
24 August, 2021

Here’s how we can show practical solidarity, not just sympathy. Pictured: more chaotic scenes from Kabul airport on Monday.

EXCLUSIVE: Voters call for Foreign Secretary to quit over handling of Afghanistan crisis

Josiah Mortimer
24 August, 2021

“Dominic Raab will go down as one of the worst Foreign Secretaries in history,” one MP tells LFF.

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Here are the Tory MPs who are paying taxpayer cash to the European Research Group

Josiah Mortimer
24 August, 2021

Expenses data reveals that 64 Conservative MPs have used taxpayer cash to fund this ‘hard right’ group since Brexit.

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Carla Denyer Adrian Ramsay
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Green Party leadership candidates Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer set out their vision for the party’s future

Why Covid vaccination booster shot schemes will prolong the pandemic

Alexandra Warren
22 August, 2021

The World Health Organisation has called for a moratorium on booster shots saying we are leaving millions of people without anything to protect them.

150,000 sign petition urging the government to make fire-and-rehire tactics illegal

Alexandra Warren
22 August, 2021

Clarks is one of the latest companies to be accused of the practice.

MPs and veterans join growing call for inquiry into Afghanistan

Alexandra Warren
21 August, 2021

The reputation of the West to support democracies across the world has suffered, says Tobias Ellwood MP.

Why the UK government’s pledge to take 20,000 Afghan refugees is woefully inadequate

Lauren Crosby Medlicott
21 August, 2021

‘Britain has a moral duty, historic responsibility and the financial means to provide many more Afghans with protection’.

Tories slammed for careless and reckless attitude towards masks

Alexandra Warren
21 August, 2021

“Staff safety and reducing the unnecessary spread of Covid is our number one priority. It should be the government’s too,” said a union spokesman.

The government should stop resisting advice on gun control and start learning lessons

Dr Mick North
20 August, 2021

‘Legal gun owners have, in fact, been responsible for the vast majority of multiple shootings in Great Britain’.

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