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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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Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves accused the government of “gaslighting” the public about the economy in a major speech on Tuesday morning. She said ministers’ optimistic statements are “out of touch” with Britons still struggling with the cost of living. It comes ahead of key figures likely to show the UK emerging from recession later this… Read more »
Rishi Sunak has insisted the UK economy is “on the right track” as he visited the site of the former Honda car factory on Monday morning. The Japanese car giant’s plant in Wiltshire shut in 2021 with the loss of thousands of jobs. The site was sold to developer Panattoni to turn into a logistics… Read more »
