Jeremy Hunt
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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Philip Hammond has suggested that the Conservative and Labour parties are not being open enough with voters about the state of the public finances.
UK inflation for February was at 3.4 per cent, down from 4 per cent, official figures show. It is a larger fall than expected after economists forecast the Office for National Statistics (ONS) figure to stand at 3.5 per cent in February. It is also the lowest reading since September 2021, when inflation stood at… Read more »
