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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 James Purnell has admitted he wants to be proved wrong about Gordon Brown’s capacity as prime minister, and hopes a Labour victory will make him look “an absolute idiot”. In a series of media interviews capped off with an appearance on Newsnight last night, the former work and pensions secretary looked back… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Top professions such as law have been closed off to children from working and middle class families as social mobility in the UK plummets, a new report has found. The report, led by former Blairite minister Alan Milburn, found that professions such as law, medicine and journalism were becoming increasingly closed off…. Read more »
