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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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Labour delegates are leaving Manchester today with a spring in their step, after a conference that most agreed had put the party back on course. After weeks of back-stabbing, dismal polls and speculation about the prime minister’s future, fighting talk from Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, John Prescott and others sent them off to campaign for… Read more »
Defence secretary Des Browne has called on Nato to provide more troops to support the military action in Afghanistan. Speaking from Slovenia, where he will soon meet with defence ministers from other countries to discuss the situation, Mr Browne praised the work of the international community so far. However, he stressed that Britain’s allies must… Read more »
