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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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Gordon Brown expressed what a “privilege” it had been to work with Tony Blair over the past decade as he today staked his claim for the Labour leadership. But the chancellor’s speech to the Labour conference in Manchester was immediately overshadowed by reports that Cherie Blair had walked out early, dismissing his comments by saying… Read more »
A trio of senior ministers have demanded a full discussion on Britain’s nuclear policy in the wake of the decision not to debate the issue at this year’s Labour conference. The party yesterday blocked attempts to launch an emergency debate on whether to replace nuclear deterrent Trident – at an estimated cost of £25 billion… Read more »
