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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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Andrew Bridgen has officially joined the Reclaim party mere weeks after it was revealed he had been permanently expelled from the Conservative party for a tweet which invoked the Holocaust to channel his criticism of covid vaccines. It makes Bridgen the Reclaim party’s first member of parliament and the latest MP in recent years to… Read more »
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