Liz Truss
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 below content first appeared in Politics.co.uk’s Politics@Lunch newsletter, subscribe here and never miss this daily briefing. It’s Liz Truss day in Westminster as the former prime minister’s new book, Ten Years to Save the West, is released unto the world. Following the account’s serialisation in the Daily Mail, Truss’ exhaustive promotional tour has come to… Read more »
Liz Truss is back — again. It is 436 days since the ex-prime minister broke her brief post-premiership quiet with a 4000-word essay in the Telegraph and a Spectator sit-down interview. And Truss’ media output remains relentless. Intervention after intervention, the former PM has once more established herself as an integral fixture of British politics… Read more »
