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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 Leaked plans to cull the number of publicly-funded bodies have triggered an investigation from the Cabinet Office – which has not denied the reports. Details of a list of 177 quangos set for the coalition government’s much-vaunted bonfire have been revealed by the Telegraph newspaper. They show an additional 129 will be… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff David Miliband and Ed Balls are among the Labour leadership candidates bracing themselves for defeat as Saturday’s result approaches. Mr Miliband, the long-term frontrunner for the race, has reportedly sent representatives to rival Ed Miliband, to discuss the transition to the new regime should his younger brother steal the race at the… Read more »
