Electoral Reform
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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Free and fair elections are the hallmark of democracy. If people are to be represented and governed as they wish, it’s not enough that they are able to vote. They must be able to vote without coercion, manipulation, or distortion. General elections in Britain are free, but they are not fair. That’s the finding of… Read more »
A cross-party group of MPs and former frontline politicians are calling for an overhaul of the electoral system as part of a package of measures to restore public trust in politics. The new All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Fair Elections, which will launch on Monday 25 November, also wants to clampdown on “dark money”… Read more »
