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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

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
23 December, 2025

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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UK debt reaches highest level in 60 years

Joe Lo
25 September, 2020

But it was a lot higher after World War Two.

A Green Industrial Revolution can breathe new life into towns like Birkenhead

Mick Whitley
25 September, 2020

The pandemic has cost jobs – green investment can replace them.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak

Prof Prem Sikka: Sunak should have done more for low earners and the self-employed

Prem Sikka
25 September, 2020

Here’s what Sunak offered and why it’s not enough.

Hundreds will die if government relaxes covid anti-homelessness rules

Joe Lo
24 September, 2020

Even without a second wave, 184 people would die, according to UCL modellers.

Boundary changes will hurt Plaid Cymru’s Westminster chances in 2024

Joe Lo
24 September, 2020

It’s likely to lose at least one of its four MPs.

The Lords have stood up for farmers against the government – but will Tory MPs?

Jenny Jones
24 September, 2020

Will rural MPs side with the government or farmers?

Richard Burgon: With the Tories U-turning, Labour must lay out radical policy

Richard Burgon
24 September, 2020

Labour must push the government into the radical solutions the country needs.

Prof Prem Sikka: We must stop British banks from cleaning criminals’ money

Prem Sikka
24 September, 2020

The US regards the UK as a “higher risk jurisdiction” on money laundering.

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that got buried

Josiah Mortimer
23 September, 2020

Left Foot Forward’s roundup of the progressive news you might have missed this week.

Interview: ‘Fearless’ rival launched to counter Murdoch-backed TV station

Josiah Mortimer
23 September, 2020

“We already have a press that’s very biased and not diverse, and a TV landscape that’s open to someone like Fox coming in,” the Byline TV co-founder tells LFF.

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