Chris Bryant
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 Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office has denied being “deliberately misleading” in the wake of the Afghanistan withdrawal. Today, the foreign affairs committee publishes the government’s response to the committee’s report “Missing in action: UK leadership and the withdrawal from Afghanistan”. The FCDO states that “there are fundamental lessons to learn” from the withdrawal, and… Read more »
Following news the resigning prime minister Boris Johnson will remain in office until September, Labour have tabled a motion of no confidence today to speed up the process. In an unprecedented move, Number 10 rejected the motion, causing Labour’s Thangam Debbonaire to raise a point of order regarding this “outrageous breach of convention”. Deputy Speaker… Read more »
