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MDU warns Chancellor clinical negligence system ‘not fit for purpose’

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 »

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Northern Ireland RE curriculum is ‘indoctrination’ – Supreme Court

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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The polls: Lib Dems nose ahead

By politics.co.uk staff The Liberal Democrat bubble has not yet burst, a week on from the TV debate which gave Nick Clegg such a boost. The latest poll, The YouGov/Sun Daily tracker, puts the hitherto third party in first place, going to 34%, up three points from the day before. The Conservatives lose two points… Read more »

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An unfortunate place to leave a secret dossier
Cabbie finds Clegg’s debate dossier

By Alex Stevenson A senior aide to Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg left his notes on last week’s televised debate in the back of a London taxi. The dossier, with the misleading title I’m Not Here Right Now, was handed in to the Sun newspaper by the cab’s driver. “Addressing audience directly worked very well,”… Read more »