* House of Lords Reform
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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Being in opposition is always hard. When you’re opposing a coalition hell-bent on securing partisan advantage from constitutional changes, it’s even harder.
Labour has been alienated from helping the government with its Lords reform bill because of the coalition’s other changes to the constitution, a leading opposition frontbencher has told politics.co.uk.
