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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

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 (2 days ago)

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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Basit Mahmood
16 July, 2025

They missed out a key detail…

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Olivia Barber
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‘They’re defending the broken status quo and are putting their own vested interests ahead of working people’s lives.’

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‘You cover the tittle tattle around Reform, you don’t look at their policies.’

Parliament
Opinion

Chris Hinchliff MP: Labour needs to take on vested interests and put people before profit

Chris Hinchliff
16 July, 2025

The Labour MP for North East Hertfordshire urges the government to stop playing it safe and take on the vested interests holding the country back.

Reform says it wouldn’t take Liz Truss and Suella Braverman as they are too toxic

Basit Mahmood
16 July, 2025

‘One well-placed insider claimed Mrs Braverman was ‘not a team player’, adding: ‘Her record shows she is just too disruptive.’

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Olivia Barber
15 July, 2025

‘The shadow Home Secretary just wants to pretend that the last eight years never happened.’

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Labour MP challenges Zia Yusuf’s ‘nonsense’ claims about climate change

Olivia Barber
15 July, 2025

‘This absolute nonsense that you come out with. You do need to actually look at the facts.’

Brian Leishman speaking in the House of Commons
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Brian Leishman MP: ‘This government should lift people out of poverty’

Brian Leishman
15 July, 2025

After a year in Parliament, Leishman writes about how he’s been holding the Labour government to account.

A photo of Nigel Farage at Reform UK's local election campaign rally in Birmingham
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Olivia Barber
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‘Reform are now doing their best to reverse the positive work we have been doing.’

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage giving a new year's message at Blenheim Palace
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Olivia Barber
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The Right is fuming that the government isn’t considering giving Trump the honour of addressing MPs and peers

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