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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 Danny Alexander has issued a defiant tweet after being called a “ginger rodent” by Labour’s deputy leader Harriet Harman. The Liberal Democrat chief secretary to the Treasury’s comment on the social networking website came as Ms Harman was forced to apologise for her remarks in a speech to the Scottish Labour party’s… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson The government is to review its approach to cargo security for air freight, home secretary Theresa May announced. It follows prime minister David Cameron’s confirmation yesterday that explosives found on a plane which stopped at East Midlands airport had the destructive potential to bring down an aircraft. Britain has banned all planes… Read more »
