John Healey
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 defence secretary has suggested the government could scrap defence projects as part of its efforts to repair the public finances.
A cabinet minister has stressed that the government has “complete confidence” in Britain’s nuclear deterrent following reports of a second failed test in eight years. Victoria Atkins, the health and social care secretary, was questioned this morning after a Trident missile, tested as part of the UK’s nuclear deterrent programme, failed. The dummy reportedly “plopped”… Read more »
