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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 Ian Dunt Rumours of a summer reshuffle have begun to emerge from Westminster, as the prime minister contemplates bringing forward an autumn renewal project to put the expenses scandal behind him. The most interesting rumour is that Peter Mandelson could be moved from his business brief over to the Foreign Office. The role would… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff The expenses scandal has pushed Labour into one of its lowest levels of support since the 1930s, but the Tories are damaged too. A YouGov poll for the Sun revealed David Cameron’s party dropped nine points in their lead in the upcoming European elections. The party nevertheless remains well ahead of Labour…. Read more »
