HS2
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 has been criticised in the commons for the way in which the HS2 delay was announced. The high-speed railway was initially set to link London and the West Midlands with a further phase extending to cities in the North. However, in a written statement, transport secretary Mark Harper said the project was making… Read more »
Andy Burnham has warned the government that its Integrated Rail Plan ‘isn’t as good as it can be’.
