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Tax rise payments from over 8 million people needed to fund NHS litigation An influential parliamentary committee has been warned by the Medical Defence Union (MDU) that the Health and Social Care Levy of 1.25% could be swallowed up by the amounts being paid out each year in NHS clinical negligence claims. In evidence to… Read more »
Plans to allow doctors to help terminally ill adults end their lives moved closer to becoming law today, after a new Assisted Dying Bill passed its second reading in the House of Lords. Humanists UK, which campaigns to legalise assisted dying for both the terminally ill and incurably suffering, has praised today’s debate for its… Read more »
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Gordon Brown today issued a gushing endorsement of Tony Blair’s premiership and insisted ‘he is my friend’. In a Sky News interview to be broadcast this lunchtime, the chancellor said Mr Blair had been a “wonderful leader” and the relationship between them “has been on of the strongest political relationships in history”. His comments come… Read more »
Clare Short has announced she will be stepping down as a Labour MP at the next general election to campaign for a hung parliament. The former international development secretary said she had “reached a stage where I am profoundly ashamed of the government”. She cited Tony Blair’s “craven” support for the US government, Gordon Brown’s… Read more »
