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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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By politics.co.uk staff A press conference scheduled between Gordon Brown and Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari has been cancelled shortly after the prime minister’s arrival in Islamabad, reports suggest. Rumours are swirling among the prime minister’s entourage that the cancellation is a protest about the arrest of twelve men – 11 of them Pakistani students… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Gordon Brown has dumped his idea of a daily ‘clocking-in’ payment for MPs. The government is due to table its motion including the other proposals in the prime minister’s scheme for clearing up MPs’ allowances shortly. It is not expected to include the changes to the second homes allowance, however, after opposition… Read more »
