

Responding to today’s publication by the GMC of its report in to doctors who have died while under investigation or during a period of monitoring, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said that lessons must be learned, and improvements made. The report reveals that between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2020, of the 29 doctors who sadly… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) will not accept “rewarding failure” in the upcoming review of firearms licensing fees in England, Scotland and Wales. The review has been launched by the Home Office. A Fees Working Group, which includes representatives from BASC and the British Shooting Sports Council, has been set up. Its… Read more »
By Ian Dunt Gordon Brown has been “humiliated” by his U-turn on Territorial Army (TA) funding, David Cameron argued today. The Tory leader made the comments while the two men traded insults across the dispatch boxes during this week’s prime minister’s questions. The Army’s proposal to cut TA funding by £20 million would have seen… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff The government has accepted a new law is required against slavery in the UK. An expected vote this afternoon on an amendment to the coroners and justice bill would have made servitude and forced labour an offence in the UK for the first time. Instead the government agreed before the vote to… Read more »