Lindsay Hoyle
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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Mail on Sunday editor David Dillon has refused to meet with Commons Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, regarding last weekend’s controversial article on deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner. During this morning’s broadcast round, justice secretary Dominic Raab refused to criticise Dillon’s boycott of the proposed Speaker meeting. However Raab denounced the Mail’s initial article as terrible”,… Read more »
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zalensky addressed the House of Commons via live link, in an unprecedented speech in which he said that Ukraine “will continue fighting for their land”. Zalensky told the House that this was a war that Ukraine didn’t start and didn’t want” and that while Ukraine were “thankful” the help so far, it is “looking for the… Read more »
