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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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Another week, another to-camera video courtesy of Robert Jenrick. Last week, the onetime Conservative leadership candidate’s agenda-setting vigilantism, as he intercepted “fare dodgers” on the London Underground, was a remarkable success. By whatever measure — social media clicks, column inches, broadcast commentary — Jenrick chalked up a genuine win. The lively broadside was the logical… Read more »
Recent polling – with the Conservatives rotating between third and fourth place – shows more than the fact the public do not trust us; it signals a growing risk of political irrelevance. Post-election, the party has gone through a period of reflection. The pressure from Reform on the right and the Liberal Democrats in the… Read more »
