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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 Former financial services minister Paul Myners has attacked the previous government for running up debts of nearly 11% of national output. “There is nothing progressive about a government that consistently spends more than it can raise in taxation and certainly nothing progressive that endows generations to come with the liabilities incurred with… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Gardens will no longer be classified as brownfield sites in a bid to stop developers taking them over, according to the government. Communities minister Greg Clarke is expected to announce later today that vital green space can no longer be treated in the same was as ex-factory or railway land. “For years… Read more »
