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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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Liberal Democrat chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander bids to paper over coalition divides on Europe after Nick Clegg criticised David Cameron’s use of the veto in last week’s summit:
David Cameron was forced to justify his decision to veto the EU rescue initiative alone today, after Nick Clegg did not turn up to his Commons statement.
