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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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Next month’s UK-EU summit will be the most consequential since Britain withdrew from the European Union. For the first time since the 2016 referendum, we are negotiating with our closest neighbours on specific ways to enhance rather than diminish this most important relationship. With all that has happened this year, it is right that defence… Read more »
Five years ago, in my final speech in the European parliament as leader of the Liberal Democrat group of MEPs, I described Brexit as a “backward step” and a “vanity project that has no basis in reality”. That’s a view that’s become more common in recent years. In fact, last month, my fellow MPs and… Read more »
