The two former Labour MPs are set to launch a new party| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
"Together, we can create something that is desperately missing from our broken political system: hope."| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
"Zarah is a phenomenal young woman", said one MP. "Good riddance", said another.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
More trouble for Nigel Farage...| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Yearly Archives: 2025 | Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
"Rishi Sunak’s statement on hatred in politics fails to mention anti-Muslim hatred at all."| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
The MP for Ashfield has said he is not ruling out defecting to Reform UK, in a move that would give the rightwing populist party its first MP.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Yearly Archives: 2024 | Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Reform’s cost-cutting efforts in Kent have failed| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Lawyers have been hired to challenge Doge's data grab| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
'No one who’s “world class” at their craft does it for free. More bullshit from Reform.'| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
‘If anyone would like to know what their future government [would be] like, I think they should come down to Kent and see that Kent County Council is on the verge of imploding.’| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Monthly Archives: October 2025 | Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
What’s behind the Trump administration’s transatlantic provocations on UK free speech and who does the dark agenda really belong to? The post Trump, Farage and the right’s free speech hypocrisy appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Polanski did not appear on Kuenssberg's show at his party's conference, but the interview has now been rescheduled amid complaints The post Zack Polanski to be interviewed by BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg after ‘anti-Green bias’ complaints appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Robert Ford was elected to represent Maidstone Rural West in May's local elections and will now sit as an independent until investigations into the allegations are complete. The post Reform in turmoil after yet another councillor is suspended appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
‘This discussion about waste is generally misleading, we’ve had 14 years of Tory austerity which has cut spending to the absolute bone.’ The post Reform councillor schooled on council savings claims appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Truss said she would launch her own social media platform, believing that the ‘establishment media’ have failed her. The post Has Liz Truss’ ‘free speech’ social media platform fallen flat? appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
‘It’s the Trump playbook’ The post Nigel Farage declares himself ‘champion’ of crypto at conference in Trump-style pitch appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Electoral reform will not transform our political culture overnight, but refusing to confront fragmentation will make effective governance permanently impossible. The post France’s political crisis is a glimpse of Britain’s future – will we react? appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Yet another resignation will add to the sense that Reform is a party in chaos, with a number of councillors having quit since the local elections in May. The post Reform UK group leader at Cornwall Council resigns from role appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
‘Nigel Farage has finally admitted what everyone already knew: Reform’s economic plans are built on sand.’ The post Reform to U-turn on £90 billion tax cuts appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Now it seems that the unit’s first test case has utterly failed, with Kent County Council considering a 5% hike in council tax.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
'I’ve taken on powerful vested interests in the education sector – and even as they threw everything at me, I have never taken a backwards step. I will bring that same determination to every battle ahead of us.'| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
The Labour mayors have urged Keir Starmer to listen to MPs and rethink the cuts| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
'I don't wish to fish in that particular pond anymore.'| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
'Our job now is to talk to the country, not to ourselves, about how we’re going to change the things that they care about.'| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Steve Wright told Left Foot Forward that the government's record is 'not good'| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Just like the legendary Mick Lynch, Dempsey bosses media interviews| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Paul W Fleming also criticised the government's decision to make cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Professor Pat Cullen is seeking nomination to run for Sinn Féin| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
In an interview with Left Foot Forward, Joanne Thomas praised Labour for taking action on it| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
The Winston Churchill-founded movement which campaigns to undo the damage of Brexit and see the UK return to its ‘rightful place in the heart of Europe,’ said the possible departure of the UK from the ECHR would be ‘utterly catastrophic.’| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
“Is it moral?”| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
A number of leading businesses have come out in support of the deal, including Asda, Morrison’s, M and S, Ryanair, as well as the CBI and the British Chambers of Commerce.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
“Why do you think one of your five MPs is saying he’s not sure if Nigel Farage has what it takes to be prime minister?”| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
The Reform MP said the idea of “stopping the power of the sun and volcanoes” is “nonsense”| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
"That doesn't make sense"| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
“What we won’t have is people working regular hours who are given a zero hour contract and no security"| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
The tech billionaire is having second thoughts about donating to Reform, stating it will be more complicated now he is leading Doge| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Candy, a billionaire property developer and former Tory donor, has become Reform’s new treasurer.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
'My advice to Nigel Farage is that he might want to concentrate his efforts on the constituency in Clacton that elected him, as opposed to spending his time in the USA.'| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Farage previously said politics should be kept out of football| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Farage posted a video online speculating on the background of the alleged killer shortly after the knife attack took place last week.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
The Reform UK leader also defended campaigning with a man convicted of assaulting his girlfriend| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
“It’s a culture shock to him.”| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
The widower of MP Jo Cox blasted Farage’s response as "vile”| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
The attack ad, which was launched yesterday, refers to comments Farage made on the ‘Strike It Big’ podcast last year.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Can the humble petition stop Trump’s visit?| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
‘He is not someone who should be receiving honours of any kind. The offer of a state visit should be rescinded.’| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
'When the 3 wealthiest men in America sit behind Trump at his inauguration, everyone understands that the billionaire class now controls our government.'| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
It calls on Starmer to 'confront him directly and stand up for our values'.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
“His bigotry and hatred has already landed in the UK, where foundations are withdrawing funds from projects helping disadvantaged communities and companies are backtracking on commitments to fight the climate crisis."| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Mel Stride fails to answer the question as his attack on Labour horribly backfires| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
"So you can’t justify the way you have been parachuted into Basildon and Billericay? You’re not deciding it’s a stitch-up and it’s anti-democratic?”| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
“I’m amazed you don’t know that debt is rising.”| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Monthly Archives: March 2025 | Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
It backfired...| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Just one in seven voters think Kemi Badenoch looks like a Prime Minister in waiting| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Does she have something to hide?| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
‘I won’t touch bread if it’s moist’| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Kemi Badenochs's first PMQs as Tory leader didn't go well.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Fox took to X, formerly Twitter, to put his exclusion from the mayoral contest down to ‘political corruption’ in posts which have since been deleted.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
‘It’s like the old sinking ship scenario.’| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
The polls suggest it could be an unprecedented result| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
These are five of the most important constituencies in the general election| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Sarah Pochin has a history of switching political allegiances| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Former Olympic rower James Cracknell made the comments in a campaign video posted on Facebook, while still pleading with voters to vote for him in Colchester.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Labour currently has a 14 point lead over Corbyn| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
“It does concern me that the supply side of the economy has slowed. It does concern me a lot.”| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
'When Brexiteers tried to create Singapore on the Thames, the Truss government instead delivered Argentina on the Channel'| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
'The reality is and everybody knows it, a division in the anti-Conservative, anti-right-wing vote can only assist the parties of the right.'| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
"It's time for a new kind of political party. One that belongs to you."| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
'We do now need to re-think Right to Buy'| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
The Mayor condemned the Westminster system for hoarding power at the centre which ‘gives as little power away as possible’.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
‘Many thanks, Daily Express. You didn’t have to publicise our pro-EU poll encouraging Starmer to break his Brexit red lines for the sake of the economy… but you did anyway.’| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
The Daily Express is shocked that the EU has decided to build better infrastructure only in countries which are members of the EU.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
'The reality is they left open borders, and she was the cheerleader, they crashed the economy, mortgages went through the roof, the NHS was left on its knees and they hollowed out the armed forces.'| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
“I’m going to have to let the leader of the opposition down gently. She didn’t feature in my thinking at all. I was so busy over the weekend I didn’t even see her proposal."| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
“She complains about scripted answers, her script doesn’t allow her to listen to the answer!"| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Last week it was also revealed that Hall has been a vocal supporter of Trump| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Hall beat Mozammel Hossain in a ballot of Tory members, winning 57% of the vote.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Rob Blackie on rebuilding relationships between the police and community, and putting solar panels on London’s roofs| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Could Reform UK win an upset victory?| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
A by-election will be taking place to replace Mike Amesbury| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Labour are on track to come second| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Carney reportedly saw the Bank of England position as a stepping stone for his political ambitions in Canada when Trudeau stood down.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Mark Carney has achieved what seemed like an impossible feat just a few months ago| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
How many seats are the Greens looking to gain?| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Candidate contests and some areas to look out as the May local elections get closer| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
'Industry also wants binding commitments — partly for greater certainty, partly because businesses are made up of people who themselves want to be properly treated'| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Right-wing papers like the Sun have been busy praising the deal for paving the way for ‘cheaper booze and chocolate’.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
"‘Popular conservatism’ is an oxymoron”: Yet ANOTHER Tory faction forms| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
“Heaven help us."| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Truss says if only Sunak had listened to her...| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Hall has previously liked tweets which praised Enoch Powell as well as Islamophobic tweets aimed at Sadiq Khan.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
The former UKIP leader confirms he will not stand as an election candidate, avoiding another humiliating defeat| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
New analysis shows 'appalling' pay gap between disabled and non-disabled workers| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
'Can we have a debate in government time on corruption in the operation of slush funds in this country'| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate