Basit Mahmood
Editor at Left Foot Forward
Labour Party Councillor for Challney Ward, Luton. Editor of @leftfootfwd. Passionate about tackling poverty and inequality and promoting social mobility.
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2 days ago |
leftfootforward.org | Basit Mahmood
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage’s register of interests is once more under scrutiny, with questions being raised about why his commercial fishing vessel has not been included. Anti-extremist campaign group Hope not Hate has highlighted how on 23 April, during an interview with GB News, Farage unexpectedly announced that he is “heavily invested” in fishing, as the owner of a commercial fishing vessel.
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2 days ago |
leftfootforward.org | Basit Mahmood
It’s going from bad to worse for Tory leader Kemi Badenoch as her party members as well as Tory voters continue to lose faith in her. The Tory party has fallen into irrelevance amid the rise of Reform UK, with Keir Starmer declaring Reform as his main opposition, saying the Conservatives have “run out of road”.
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2 days ago |
leftfootforward.org | Basit Mahmood
The Labour government is extending free school meals to a further 500,000 children, with any child in England whose parents receive Universal Credit able to claim free school meals from September 2026. The rule changes, as part of the Labour government’s policy to lift children out of poverty, will save parents around £500 a year. The move will lift 100,000 children out of poverty, according to the Department for Education.
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3 days ago |
leftfootforward.org | Basit Mahmood
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed that some winter fuel payments will be reinstated in time for this winter, after Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he wanted to widen the threshold for winter fuel support. The decision to means-test the previously universal payment, worth up to £300 to help cover energy costs, was one of the first announcements made by the chancellor after Labour’s landslide election victory last year.
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4 days ago |
leftfootforward.org | Basit Mahmood
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has hit out at Reform’s Nigel Farage, calling him a ‘pathetic, poisonous little man’, who doesn’t care about Scotland and who ‘wants to play on people’s fears and hopelessness’. Farage has recently been in Scotland ahead of a crucial by-election due to take place this Thursday in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse, following the death of the SNP’s Christina McKelvie.
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