Inflation
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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Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor of Exchequer, has said the UK is “starting to see the tide turn against high inflation” after the Bank of England announced the interest rate would remain at 5.25%. The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted narrowly 5-4 in favour of holding interesting rates – the first time rates did… Read more »
Inflation dropped to 6.8 per cent in the year to July, according to the Office for National Statistics. The continued downwards trend is good news for prime minister Rishi Sunak, who pledged at the start of this year to halve inflation before the end of 2023. The figure is a significant improvement of the situation… Read more »
