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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 Labour MP Harry Cohen will stand down at the next election, following his part in the expenses scandal. The Labour backbencher is currently under investigation by the Parliamentary Standards Commission over second home allowance claims adding up to £100,000. His constituency of Leyton and Wanstead is just nine miles from Westminster. Mr… Read more »
By Liz Stephens There was more bad news for Labour today as the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that the current recession is deeper than previously thought. The annual drop in output during the period of January to March reached an all-time record of 4.9 per cent new ONS figures showed. “The biggest three… Read more »
