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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 Gordon Brown has attempted to head off Tory attacks on his honesty with a pledge to the electorate that he can be trusted on spending. “I have always told the truth,” he told the BBC. “I have always told people as it is. “I have also explained we have a deficit reduction… Read more »
By Liz Stephens As the East Coast mainline is nationalised, details emerged of a potential £30 billion reduction in capital expenditure for transport projects. An industry memo, leaked to the Guardian today, warns of “looming spending cuts”. The news follows revelations from Lord Mandelson on Monday that plans to fund social housing projects would come… Read more »
