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 Deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman is currently a subject of a police investigation into a minor car crash. The allegations relate to an incident which took place on July 3rd in Dulwich, south London, but which has only just come to light now. Ms Harman is alleged to have driven off after… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson A David Cameron premiership is the best option to “save” Scotland from the threat of independence, Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie has said. Addressing the Conservative party conference in Manchester, Ms Goldie attacked the way Scottish National party first minister Alex Salmond and Labour prime minister Gordon Brown have not met for… Read more »
