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Responding to the independent report by Lord Darzi into the NHS, Dr Caroline Fryar, MDU director of professional services, said: “We welcome the government’s recognition that healthcare professionals are working in a broken system. Lord Darzi’s report has shone a spotlight on the scale of the challenge the NHS faces. Every day doctors go to work to… Read more »
The Government has today brought forward a Bill to remove hereditary peers from the House of Lords. Humanists UK has welcomed this move as long overdue reform. But it has also said that the next step should be to remove the 26 Church of England bishops, known as the Lords Spiritual, who also have an automatic right… Read more »
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The House of Commons voted this evening by 363-103 to reject the SNP’s amendment to the King’s Speech, which called on the government to scrap the two-child benefit cap. The amendment, tabled in the name of SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn, regretted that the King’s Speech “fails to include immediate measures to abolish the two-child… Read more »
James Cleverly has said there is a “reasonable chance” he will stand in the Conservative leadership contest.
