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King’s Speech overlooks key humanist campaigns

Humanists UK has expressed dismay at the King’s Speech – which sets out the Government’s agenda for the months ahead – as it overlooks progress on key humanist campaigns to legally recognise humanist marriages, close down illegal schools, and ban conversion therapy. No action to legally recognise humanist marriages in England and Wales The Government… Read more »

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MDU calls for fundamental reform to regulation as GMC outlines improvements

Responding to today’s update by the GMC about the work it is doing to ensure doctors undergoing an investigation are treated fairly and proportionately, Dr Caroline Fryar, Medical Defence Union (MDU) director of medical services, said: “Today marks the first anniversary of the publication by the GMC of the independent review into the case of… Read more »

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Abandoning climate aid would torpedo Global Britain ambitions

A leaked civil service briefing has warned that the government could break its pledge to spend £11.6bn over five years on sustainable development, climate action and nature protection overseas. It follows Zac Goldsmith’s warning that the promise would be broken as he resigned as International Environment Minister with a broadside against Rishi Sunak for being… Read more »

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Are MPs able to ask the big questions about hydrogen, AI or the calculation of economic recovery?

Parliament is being asked to scrutinise more complex and technical policy. The Bills currently before Parliament include data protection and digital information, levelling up and regeneration, energy, electronic trade documents and digital markets, competition and consumers. The scrutiny work of MPs is already under pressure since around a third of legislative responsibility was returned to… Read more »