Priti Patel
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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Speaking at the Conservative party conference currently underway in Birmingham, the home secretary Suella Braverman honed in on her plans for immigration in the UK, saying “it’s not racist to want to control our borders”. Braverman said that she will pull forward legislation to ensure that all illegal migration is put to an end, pushing… Read more »
In a statement to the House of Commons, home secretary Priti Patel told MPs that she remains “committed” to the policy to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda when they illegally enter the UK despite the European Court of Human Rights halting the flight. Labour’s Yvette Cooper accused the home secretary of knowing “she didn’t have… Read more »
