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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 The duck house which became a symbol of MPs’ misuse of expenses has been sold for charity. Former Tory MP Sir Peter Viggers sold the duck house for £1,700 and donated the money to Macmillan Cancer Support. “We are really delighted that some good has come out of the whole expenses scandal… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Disillusioned voters who backed the Liberal Democrats at the general election appear to be turning to Labour rather than the Conservatives, a poll suggests. Research by ComRes for the Independent found 22% of Lib Dem voters would now vote Labour, up from 15% last month. By contrast just seven per cent would… Read more »
