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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 ‘Old Labour’ voters are turning to the Liberal Democrats in Norwich North, their candidate April Pond has claimed. Ms Pond told politics.co.uk at her campaign headquarters in the Norfolk constituency that many Labour backers felt “let down by what the Labour party’s become”. Conservative candidate Chloe Smith appears the frontrunner in today’s… Read more »
MPs are taking their traditional 82 day break from parliament this year, but opposition to the duration of the break is far higher than usual. Parliamentary reform activists stress that the time away is too lengthy, especially when the government is facing pressure from the financial crisis, the expenses scandal, the war in Afghanistan and… Read more »
