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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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It could take ten years to remove all the illegal immigrants in the UK, Home Office minister Tony McNulty has admitted. His comments came after Tony Blair said that nobody knew how many illegal immigrants were in Britain, warning any estimates were likely to be “highly speculative”. In the House of Commons yesterday, the prime… Read more »
The government has today unveiled a £1.75 billion package to help Royal Mail tackle its pensions black hole and modernise its services. Trade and industry secretary Alistair Darling said the agreement would give the postal firm “the right basis from which to take forward an ambitious modernisation programme, helping to deliver a world class service”…. Read more »
