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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 Nigel Farage has quit as leader of Ukip, just a day after announcing his candidacy against John Bercow in Buckingham. The South East MEP will inform his party of the decision at its conference in Stockport today, but he has already made the move public, citing the workload of leading both the… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff The Foreign Office is being supplanted by the EU’s own diplomatic service, according to a report published today. The report, by the Taxpayers’ Alliance, highlights some startling costs attached to the business of running the EU’s diplomatic service. Excluding wages, it found the EU’s international affairs programme has a budget of £3.4… Read more »
