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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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Businesses of all sizes are creating jobs, investing in skills and driving growth in communities across the country. They do so against a backdrop of increasing geopolitical instability and under a Labour government that has so far shown little understanding of what businesses need to thrive. Starting any business always comes with a degree of… Read more »
The towns and cities we build must start with a simple, often neglected principle: decisions about housing and infrastructure should improve our quality of life. We need homes, services and infrastructure that meet people’s needs. But the answer cannot simply be to just build with little regard for the places people already call home. To… Read more »
