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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 Foreign Office and development ministers will today outline a new rulebook guiding British officials on how to support and monitor elections overseas. Stephen O’Brien from the Department for International Development (DfID) and Foreign Office minister Jeremy Browne will stress the importance of free and fair elections in encouraging democratic ideals. Mr Browne… Read more »
By Ian Dunt The fallout from last week’s tuition fees protest continued today, with police, student activists and the coalition itself under the spotlight. The home secretary updated the Commons on the violence at last Thursday’s demonstration. Meanwhile, prominent Tory MP David Davis said the vote revealed widespread discontent with the coalition among Tory MPs…. Read more »
