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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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In November 2022, Rishi Sunak was granted his first taste of the international stage as prime minister when the G20 met in Indonesia, in what was to prove a geopolitical baptism of fire. At the time, few commentators knew how Sunak would approach foreign policy — unlike both Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, former foreign… Read more »
Kemi Badenoch has said the UK should not be describing China as a “foe”, despite the arrest of two men under the Official Secrets Act amid reports a parliamentary researcher spied for China. Badenoch, the business and trade secretary, instead chose to term China a “challenge”, sticking to the wording of the government’s integrated security… Read more »
