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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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As London continues to grapple with the Casey Review into the Metropolitan Police, another critical emergency service, the London Fire Brigade, has largely slipped out of the spotlight since Nazir Afzal’s watershed report exposed a culture of institutional racism and misogyny back in 2022. Nonetheless, as a new Fire Commissioner prepares to take the helm,… Read more »
Voters across England are heading to the polls as Keir Starmer’s government readies for its first major interaction with the electorate since winning office in July last year. Labour is preparing for a difficult set of results — but it is Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative Party that is most exposed today. Of the 1,641 council seats… Read more »
