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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 Conservative candidates will be pounding the tarmac, campaigning on the subject of Heathrow airport in south west London today. Ironically, the party’s ‘day of action’ comes when one of the busiest patches of sky in the world is empty of aircraft, and the airport a hive of inactivity. The Tories’ Heathrow action… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff David Cameron pledged to reform public services in as radical with a radical shift of power, as the campaign continues into its second weekend. The Conservative leader told activists in Gloucester he would introduce a Public Sector Co-op Service which would work as a “battering ram” to push new ways of providing… Read more »
