Left Foot Forward

Left Foot Forward (LFF) is a left-wing political news and comment site in the UK, established in 2009.

[3] In 2020, Joe Lo joined as co-editor, before being replaced by former Newsweek journalist Basit Mahmood in May 2021.

[5][6][7][8] In January 2014, the charity Oxfam cancelled an event at the East London Mosque after Left Foot Forward made the charity aware of the profile of one of its headline speakers, Ibrahim Hewitt, who had written a book for GCSE students calling homosexuality a "great sin", and saying that gay people should be "severely punished" under Islamic law.

[16] LFF was one of the outlets which questioned government ministers during the daily COVID-19 press conferences in April 2020.

[17] Contributing editors to the site include accounting professor Prem Sikka, former Green Party leader Natalie Bennett, and Unite the Union Assistant General Secretary Tony Burke.