David Lammy
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 government will seek to persuade Donald Trump that harming the UK by hiking tariffs is not in his interest, David Lammy has said The foreign secretary said he plans to “get across” to the president-elect that “hurting your closest allies” is not in the United States’ interest, as fears of a trade war loom…. Read more »
This week, the foreign secretary David Lammy announced his intention to place climate action and nature at the heart of Britain’s foreign policy. The week prior he was in Ukraine with president Zelensky, before travelling across the Atlantic to meet with president Biden, and next week he’s attending the United Nations General Assembly in New… Read more »
