John Prescott
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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Ed Miliband is set to turn this November’s police and crime commissioner elections into an effective referendum on the coalition’s law and order policies – and has the campaigning power of John Prescott on his side.
Unpaid staff forced to spend half the night under London Bridge are triggering concerns about the government’s “exploitative” work programme.
