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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 Support for the Liberal Democrats has hit a new low, with just 12% of voters saying they would now back the party. The Sunday Times/YouGov poll shows the party now receives barely half the level of support it got during the election campaign. The data suggests Lib Dem voters who consider themselves… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff The RMT union has tabled a motion demanding “coordinated” action against government cuts at next month’s TUC conference. The transport union said the blueprint was designed to show how communities and trade unions could fight back against the “class warfare” of the coalition government. “The TUC has to be the launch-pad for… Read more »
