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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

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
Yesterday

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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What they are fundamentally doing today is forgetting the three words that should be at the forefront of every doctor’s minds every day which is ‘do no harm’.

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If sign-ups counted for party membership, the new party would be the third largest in Britain, just behind Reform UK.

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Public ownership is the only viable alternative but is opposed by the government

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Olivia Barber
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It was more of a half apology

Brexit

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Basit Mahmood
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‘Because of Brexit, because of the way the world’s evolving, the talent that was more centred here is more mobile’

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‘Words must be matched by action’

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Reform UK spent thousands on luxury lunches and hotels during general election campaign

Olivia Barber
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Party sources claim the bills were racked up by someone who has now left Reform

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Fixing social care can help fix the economy

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Debate on the funding of social care always emphasises the costs, not the financial gains

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