ministerial code
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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According to the ministerial code, ministers- including the prime minister- must be ‘accurate and truthful’ in their dealings with Parliament and comply with the principle of collective responsibility. Failure to do either would be expected to result in resignation. Boris Johnson has been accused of potentially breaching the code following allegations he may have misled… Read more »
David Cameron described yesterday’s hearing regarding the Greensill scandal as “a painful day”.
