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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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Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain’s incoming prime minister, yesterday said he would honour his pre-election pledge and withdraw the country’s 1300 peacekeeping troops from Iraq if the UN fails to assume charge of the country by July. Mr Zapatero slammed the US-led occupation of Iraq as a “fiasco.” But President Bush said his country would… Read more »
The Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday effectively ruled out any decision on UK membership of the European single currency in this Parliament. Gordon Brown in his eighth Budget speech said the Treasury’s five economic principles would not be reassessed again until Budget 2005. The Chancellor told MPs: “Last year, we identified the housing market, housing… Read more »
