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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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Russia report: Putin’s cronies influence UK through political donations

Joe Lo
21 July, 2020

Donating “positions them to assist Russian influence operations”

Government accused of funelling taxpayers cash away from safe seats to marginals

Joe Lo
21 July, 2020

Labour accused the government of “gerrymandering” and leaving communities out.

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Three quarters of Brits want protections for NHS in Trade Bill

Lucy Skoulding
20 July, 2020

Over half the British public don’t believe Boris Johnson has taken the NHS “off the table” like he claims

NHS staff were working 11 unpaid hours a week before pandemic

Lucy Skoulding
20 July, 2020

It amounts to over 2.3 million hours of unpaid work a week in the NHS

PM’s ‘back to office’ plan could see more children living in poverty

Lucy Skoulding
20 July, 2020

Parents must navigate childcare and jobs over summer holidays – with no government help

Why Tom Pashby wants to guide the Green Party back to being a ‘crystal clear voice for climate and social justice’

Tom Pashby
20 July, 2020

“We need to be the loud alternative Left, environmentalist vote” says the Green Party deputy leadership challenger.

Radical roundup: 10 stories that got buried this week

Josiah Mortimer
17 July, 2020

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

Hundreds of health experts warn NHS is under threat through Tory trade plans

Josiah Mortimer
17 July, 2020

“Failure to exclude the NHS from trade deals may result in unavoidable and irreversible marketisation of the UK healthcare.”

‘Deepfake’ journalist exposed after targeting staff at human rights charity War on Want

Josiah Mortimer
17 July, 2020

Could this become the new normal for campaigns targeting left-wingers?

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New figures reveal an auditing sector that is beyond repair

Prem Sikka
17 July, 2020

A huge portion of audits are ‘poor quality’. What other sector would be allowed to get away with this?

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