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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 prime minister has warned of the “new dangers and new fears” that will come with the development of Artificial Intelligence technology. It comes as the PM attempts to set the stage for the UK to host an AI safety summit at Bletchley Park next week. “The right speech for me to make is to… Read more »
The Labour leader argued that the Labour Party are “the healers, the modernisers, [and] the builders” in his conference speech — it is expected to be the last before a general election. Sir Keir set his sights on at least two terms in power as he vowed to lead Britain through a “decade of national… Read more »

