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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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When parties have an insurmountable majority, the actual numbers start to become less relevant – government can assume its legislation will go through parliament unopposed. The Conservative party may have proved that adage wrong in recent years as it split apart securing a Brexit deal, but it was a notable exception: most other legislation –… Read more »
The below content first appeared in Politics.co.uk’s Politics@Lunch newsletter, sign-up for free here and never miss this daily briefing. “A day of shame for the British state” — that was Rishi Sunak’s verdict on the publication of the Infected Blood Inquiry’s final report, delivered via ministerial statement in the House of Commons yesterday. Watch our summary… Read more »
