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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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Most Britons say they would support rejoining the EU ahead of Brexit vote anniversary

Basit Mahmood
20 June, 2025

A majority of the public now regret the vote to leave.

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Reform council leader in North Northamptonshire ‘distances’ himself from ‘Doge’

Olivia Barber
20 June, 2025

‘It is like he’s trying to distance himself from it, calling it an Efficiency Review instead of calling it what it is, ‘Doge’.’

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Reform officials met with Viktor Orban aides for advice on welfare policy

Basit Mahmood
20 June, 2025

That Reform feels comfortable seeking advice on welfare from such a regime speaks volumes about the values the party holds.

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UK’s largest trade union saw membership jump by 200% in 10 councils won by Reform

Basit Mahmood
19 June, 2025

Nigel Farage’s party have also set made clear their intention cut back on expenditure in local authorities, setting up the DOGE unit, and Farage warning workers in a speech celebrating his party’s gains, to seek “alternative careers” if they worked on diversity or climate change initiatives.

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Nearly £2 million in 2024 general election candidate donations ‘disappeared’ from public view

Olivia Barber
19 June, 2025

‘We don’t know what is happening to that money’

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in the House of Commons
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Reform’s popularity starts to fall in the polls

Basit Mahmood
19 June, 2025

It comes at a time when Farage’s approval rating has also fallen in the polls.

Reform UK
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Reform councillors in Durham questioned over net zero stance

Olivia Barber
19 June, 2025

Durham’s Reform councillors appeared sceptical about the benefits of renewable energy technologies…

Heidi Alexander
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Heidi Alexander roasts Nigel Farage over him wanting to entirely scrap HS2

Basit Mahmood
19 June, 2025

So much for Farage caring about tackling the North/South divide.

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Labour MPs call on Farage to suspend Reform councillor over murder suspect claims

Olivia Barber
19 June, 2025

Since being elected, the Reform UK councillor has posted about Hitler, the Moors murderers and made an unfounded claim about a murder suspect

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage giving a new year's message at Blenheim Palace
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Nigel Farage to speak at Tufton Street climate denial event

Basit Mahmood
18 June, 2025

Farage has made clear his party’s opposition to net zero. He’s more than happy for the planet to burn, while benefiting oil and gas companies.

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