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The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has called on the government to press ahead with long promised reforms aimed at controlling the costs of clinical negligence cases. In written evidence to the House of Commons public accounts committee into NHS financial sustainability the MDU explains that the government must introduce legal reforms to the current clinical negligence system… Read more »
The leading anti-assisted dying group Christian Action, Research and Education (CARE) used Christian reasoning to get its supporters to write to their MPs – but then omitted any Christian language at all from the default email that it got them to send. While recognising that it is essential that all sides are heard in the… Read more »
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Britain has “lost” southern Iraq, a US intelligence official has claimed. The unnamed official said British troops have lost control of Basra, blaming disorder on Britain’s troop withdrawal. In an interview with the Washington Post, he described the 500 British troops at Basra Palace as being “surrounded like cowboys and Indians”. “The British have basically… Read more »
The government will consider giving special priority to Iraqi interpreters claiming asylum in the UK. Senior army officials had argued a special case should be made for the 91 interpreters who worked for British forces. The Iraqis now fear they will be a target for local militias and wish to claim asylum in the UK…. Read more »
