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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 Alex Stevenson and Ian Dunt Commons Speaker Michael Martin has refused to apologise for his outburst in parliament yesterday when facing objections to his handling of the expenses scandal. Mr Martin’s handling of the Commons’ expenses crisis is now likely to lead to a vote of no confidence in the House, a possibility he… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff The Liberal Democrats have surged ahead in the opinion polls off the back of damaging expenses revelations against the two main parties. A Populus poll for the Times this morning – conducted between Friday and Sunday – shows a sharp drop in support for Labour and the Conservatives, with the Liberal Democrats… Read more »
