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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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The energy regulator Ofgem has this morning confirmed a cut to its price cap which will see average household bills come down this autumn. Ofgem said the typical household paying by direct debit for gas and electricity faced an annual charge of £1,923 from October to December. This is down from the £2,074 level set… Read more »
Ed Miliband has said that energy firms are bringing in “unearned, unexpected profits” due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine driving up gas prices. Labour’s shadow secretary of state for climate change and net zero told BBC Breakfast this morning that the long-term answer is to move away from fossil fuels quickly by increasing on-shore and… Read more »
