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Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer urging her to take decisive action to tackle the soaring legal costs of clinical negligence claims. In the last year alone, the NHS spent more than £800 million on legal fees relating to clinical negligence… Read more »
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education (RE) and collective worship in Northern Ireland are ‘indoctrination’. Alongside mandatory Christian collective worship and a ‘stigmatising’ right of withdrawal, this is therefore discriminatory under human rights law. This ruling will have wide-ranging… Read more »
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Leading Conservative donor Lord Ashcroft has launched a no-holds barred attack on the party’s election campaign, claiming voters had a “more negative” view of the party at the end of the campaign than at the beginning In a 114-page pamphlet entitled “smell the coffee – a wake up call for the Conservative Party” – based… Read more »
Conservative Party leadership hopeful David Cameron today insisted it was crazy to say that there should be “clear blue water” between the Conservatives and Labour. The self-styled “moderniser” said the Conservatives should never allow themselves to create an impression of insincerity by attacking the Government when it does things right. “Real modernisation means agreeing with… Read more »
