Diane Abbott
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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A Labour Party investigation into Diane Abbott will be resolved before the general election, Keir Starmer has indicated. The Labour leader was asked about the probe on Friday morning in relation to the recent defection of MP Natalie Elphicke to his party from the Conservatives. Questioned on whether Elphicke represents Labour better than Abbott, Starmer… Read more »
Diane Abbott has suggested that “people around” Labour leader Keir Starmer are “digging in” against her getting the party whip back. In an article for The Guardian newspaper published on Wednesday evening, Abbott insisted that “all the indications are that the people around him are digging in against any suggestion that I should have the… Read more »
