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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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The chancellor has vowed to “break down barriers” to trade between the European Union and United Kingdom as part of the government’s post-Brexit “reset”. The comments came as Rachel Reeves delivered speech at meeting of European finance ministers. “This is the first time a British chancellor has attended a meeting of EU finance ministers since… Read more »
A senior government minister has rejected the claim that Labour is picking a fight with civil servants after Keir Starmer suggested that some officials are content with the “tepid bath of managed decline” last week. Pat McFadden, the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, was asked why the prime minister appeared to critique civil servants… Read more »
