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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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Green co-leader “cannot honestly see” future electoral pact with Labour or Lib Dems

Joe Lo
28 July, 2020

She said Labour was becoming more authoritarian and right-wing.

‘Tommy Robinson’ migrates to Spain using rights as an EU citizen

Joe Lo
28 July, 2020

Thanks to the ‘transition period’, he still has freedom of movement.

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Is Wales the next political battleground?

Robert Simkins
27 July, 2020

The fight for the Welsh Parliament elections in 2021 is a three horse race.

The Government’s commitment to the Paris Agreement at question over funding of Mozambique project

Ilham Rawoot Daniel Ribiero
27 July, 2020

The UK government’s decision to finance the gas industry in Mozambique shows that it is still happy to put fossil fuel investments ahead of climate and human rights, as long as it’s not on their doorstep.

Greens take control of Brighton and Hove Council

Emma Burnell
27 July, 2020

A number of resignations by Labour councillors has led to the Greens being the largest group and taking over control of Brighton and Hove Council.

Papa John workers in Sheffield protest ‘wage theft’ allegations

Emma Burnell
27 July, 2020

Workers at a Sheffield Papa John’s franchise protested this weekend about alleged unpaid wages.

Why is Michael Gove attacking a public interest law group?

Jolyon Maugham
24 July, 2020

Lawyers for the Government have tried to undermine the ‘standing’ of the Good Law Project – who are tackling secrecy on PPE contracts.

Radical roundup: 10 stories that got buried this week

Josiah Mortimer
24 July, 2020

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

Cities are changing forever. What does that mean for low-paid Londoners?

Dr Chris McMillan
24 July, 2020

What happens when office workers leave cities en masse?

The Tories have quietly dropped their hopes for a US trade deal this year

Tony Burke
24 July, 2020

Johnson’s trade plans are falling apart by the week.

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