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 Gordon Brown has confirmed the Budget will be held in “two weeks’ time”, ending speculation about an early general election. Westminster insiders had already ruled out the idea of an early election before the likely date of May 6th, when local government elections also take place. But many continued to believe the… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson MPs deemed to have committed “crimes against democracy” will be targeted by a new third-party pressure group at the general election. The Power2010 campaign plans on spending nearly £1 million it has received from the Rowntree Trusts to target constituencies where the sitting MP is judged to have consistently opposed reform of… Read more »
